First storm of the season - 720p 60FPS lightning show

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[Senna1Rossi]

So cool!

[diynuke]

May 17, 2017 13:13:14 GMT -5 peascreek said:

Still amazing how lighting looks              amazing nature ;D

[tortoise2]

720p 60FPS

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Just what you want out in the middle of nowhere in a severe thunderstorm...

[FrankenMech]

Exceptional cloud to cloud lightning. Very cool.

[stepthrutuner]

@ around 2:08 amazing. Thanks.

EDIT: Make that 2:04

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Fun fact: that particular clip was shot just south of a property where scenes from the movie "Twister" were shot, film crew was based in Ames, they shot locations all over Boone County

[2stroked]

Had some of that here today ( in KY. ) Also some golf ball sized hail. I don't have a decent camera and my cheap ass phone doesn't have a flash, so no pic.

[FrankenMech]

Nothing can compare with that day back in about 1974 when I was caught in a lightning storm on the interstate North of Wichita KS. Broad daylight, no rain, just giant ground/cloud bolts striking all around me, streaming across the road, down the ditches, across the fields, past my car from every direction. Then there was the ball lightning!!! It was an absolute fantastic scene! I was sitting up driving and watching. Everyone else in the car was cowering on the floor. I couldn't get any of them to watch. The car was never hit directly. It was essentially a Faraday cage rolling along on dry tires. There was nowhere to go for shelter so I kept driving at a slow pace in case a bolt did blow out the tires. I will remember that scene to my dying day, so sooo cool!

[2stroked]

Ball lightning is the coolest natural phenomenon. I have seen it in person only twice. Have been in multiple arguments battling the existance of ball lightning, seems a lot of...people..do not believe it exists.

[FrankenMech]

Yeah it does. I saw several iridescent balls flying down the ditches that day. They looked a lot like a big soap bubble or multicolor glass bubble about 2 feet in diameter with internal streamers kind of like one of those plasma globes going in it. They moved pretty fast. That is the best description I can give. They were hard to actually see because the eye didn't have something to really focus on.

The lightning bolts that hit the highway were cool also. They sent blue-white-red streamers out in every direction. There were rivers of lightning running down the road and ditches and across the highway also. Noisy as hell... The ozone smell was incredible.

It is too bad they didn't have Go-Pro cameras back in the dark ages. I was way too poor to afford one though. I could barely afford peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

[humanshield]

It's baaaaaaaaack. (Summer)

Cool video

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I use to chase them a lot in my Wrangler, then suffice it to say I had a seriously bad night that can be summed up in "this was a bad idea", but I've been through 3 tornadoes in my life just sitting in my house, worst was back in the late 70's, two touched down back home, one hit the farmhouse next to us, knocked the barn flat, skipped over our house and proceeded to lift the roof's off the next 6 houses, lifted and came back down about 1/2 mile away and wiped out a huge chunk of residential neighborhood, while another one hit the other side of town, took out college buildings, a TV station and tower, pretty nasty stuff.

My dad and I were looking out the front door, next thing I know I was in his arms flying down the stairs to the basement.

[aeroxbud]

Makes you marvel at the awesome power in nature.

That must of been really scary peascreek