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English: Black and white image of the iconic tree from The Shawshank Redemption located in Lucas, Ohio. Photo was after the 2011 lightning strike which split the tree in half. Image was cropped from the original.
It was a result of a transmission failure due to a lightning strike on power lines. A second lightning strike caused the loss of two more overhead power lines, and the last power connection between New York City and the Northwest. The power outage resulted in high instances of looting occurring over 26 hours. [38]
The presence of fulgurites in an area can be used to estimate the frequency of lightning over a period of time, which can help to understand past regional climates. Paleolightning is the study of various indicators of past lightning strikes, primarily in the form of fulgurites and lightning-induced remanent magnetization signatures. [1]
SEATTLE -- A lightning bolt struck a giant tree in Seattle's Washington Park Arboretum Tuesday afternoon and the entire thing exploded. The bark of the tree was literally blow in all directions.
A storm chaser in Shreve, Ohio, caught dramatic footage of cloud-to-ground lightning striking at a quarry on July 20, as a tornado-warned stormed loomed above.Michael C Thomas said in a tweet that ...
When a bolt strikes a tree it super-heats the sap throughout the tree and water in the sap turns to steam. "This happens in a split second," says Q13 FOX News Metoerologist M.J. McDermott.
Other physical injury can be caused by objects damaged or thrown by the lightning strike. For example, lightning striking a nearby tree may vaporize sap, and the steam explosion often causes bark and wood fragments to be explosively ejected. Lightning strikes can also induce a transient paralysis known as 'keraunoparalysis'. [3]
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