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Fright Night at home - Lightning - Bally002 - 02-13-2025
G'day all,
Weather on the east coast of Aussie lately has been storms, flooding rains, gale winds, giant hail etc.
Different from when I first moved to the north coast of NSW 11 and a bit years ago. Kinda reminds me of Darwin during the cyclone and wet season.
We have had several thunder storms pass over lately and last evening was no exception. About 8pm the storms rolled in from the south. Bit of a boom crash opera.
Strikes around the house and the yard in rapid succession. The house shook and cracking electrical noises echoed inside. Quite blinding light, zap/boom. Blew the land line out. Glad I've cleared around the area. One particular strike was followed by cracking and crunching noises.
Rained heavily all night. Now, I'm not frightened of the odd thunderstorm and do like a light show but this one was off the scale.
Woke up this morning and checked the back yard. Sure enough lightning had struck 2 trees in the yard.
Shrapnel in the form of timber splinters up to 4 meters long were scattered about with some over 2 meters embedded into the ground and sticking upright.
The bigger tree, an 'Iron Bark' Eucalypt, bout 60 feet tall shading the chook shed suffered a hit from top to roots and was interesting to view as you could see the route taken by the bolt which carved a crevice out. No burn signs. This tree is about 50 metres from the house and a piece about 3 metres long speared into the ground travelling 50 metres in a different direction. Iron Bark is a solid, heavy timber with one of the highest strength ratings.
I took some pics which actually don't really do the scale and distance justice. (Cheap mobile phone). Scared the crap out of the rooster who didn't surface till late afternoon. Knocked the peg baskets off the clothes hoist.
Bally. More pics to come. Reached my limit.
RE: Fright Night at home - Lightning - BIAD - 02-13-2025
I think the takeaway from Bally's alarming post is that it is not only organic things in Australia
that wishes to kill you, the weather does too!
RE: Fright Night at home - Lightning - EndtheMadnessNow - 02-14-2025
I only like lightning from a long ass distance away. Lightning struck two large maple trees in my yard last July. Scared the hell out of me. My cat didn't come out from under the bed until dinner time.