Lightning strikes

damn Nature, you scary!

This guy was struck by lightning seven different times in his life!

Hopefully not all at the same time.

Looks like all at the same time and place.

If that's the same guy I recall, he was scheduled to appear on the Tonight Show because he had (then) been struck by lightening five time. He was struck a sixth time before he appeared on the show.

That was cool!

It stuck the trail above and shot down into the water and then must have travelled under the water, superheating it to cause the explosion.

I wonder if there is a wire or rail under that trail leading down into the water.

I have never seen anything like that. I wonder why there was a camera pointing there.

Wow and a half, edgar. Now I know why my mother always told me to get out of the water in thunder storms. I guess she didn't want a fried Roberta.

Somehow it doesn't look like a lightning strike to me. Detcord ignition into the water, and ammonium nitrate explosives underwater. The yellowish smoke is a telltale sign.

I have to admit that never occurred to me. You could well be right. That would also nicely explain the presence of the camera.

There is a youtube of this with the picture reversed. Here are some of the comments.


dulakhc
dulakhc1 hour ago
It's a detonation alright..
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Todd Cameron
Todd Cameron6 hours ago
I don't think this is Lightning. There's lots of videos of lightning striking water that doesn't have anywhere near this effect. Really cool though whatever it is.
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Jimmy DaSquid
Jimmy DaSquid12 hours ago
Det cord.
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Patrick Teague
Patrick Teague18 hours ago
http://www.snopes.com/lightning-striking-a-river/
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Karynne Williams
Karynne Williams21 hours ago
Does not look like lightning to me. and why is it backwards? It looks like detonation cord running down a hill to an explosive in the water. Just sayin.
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if Snopes says it's false, that's good enough for me...

Thanks. My intent in starting this thread was to share lightning strikes and possible related information. I was fooled, but that's par for the course, on the internet.

look like some ol boys were out fishin with anfo. yeh the first line was a det cord.

It fooled me too. Although, I was thinking it stuck an underground cable or rail and followed that down into the mud below the water, and that's what caused all the brown in the explosion. But I guess primer cord makes more sense.