Lightning strike...........

[Shuffler]

This happened yesterday afternoon. This tree is very close beside the shop. The  20 ton A/C you see in the pics has dents in it as well as our building. The explosive force sent large pieces of wood as far as 80 feet.

[branch37]

Lightning can do some crazy stuff.  A strike hit the tree in my aunts fron yard about a month ago.  Literally threw her flower bed into the yard. 

[morfiend]

 Cool pix Shuff.

  If you could only harness all that power it might end our quest for "new power"!


   

[Ack-Ack]

Saw lightning strike a large oak tree a couple of hundred yards from where I was fishing once.  When my friend and I walked over to check it out, we were amazed at what the lightning had done.  Just like in those pictures but the trunk was almost completely hollowed out with a large hole at the base of the trunk where everything was blown out from.  We also saw about 3 dead rabbits and a bunch of squirrels that were still smoldering and it smelt like burned fur around the tree.

ack-ack

[Meatwad]

MMMMM....Instant food

[hymi]

now you need to make a baseball bat

[Slash27]

We had a ton of cloud to ground here today. We ran a fully involved doublewide with a neighboring dept this afternoon due to strike. There was a shed hit right up the street that burned, a 5 acre grassfire, and  a damn roundbale hit. I didn't want to be outside

Sweet pics, glad it was just a tree.

[68ZooM]

Wow, you should tell people its an Elk Rub    

[FiLtH]

All those precious tiny leaves dont even know they are doomed.

[Killer91]

I saw the aftermath of an oak tree that got hit last year. it was only about 6-8 inches in diameter. It blew the trunk apart and the top of the tree fell straight down a stayed standing straight up. It essentially just made the tree about 12 ft shorter. There were also two long pieces of trunk about 12 ft long and 3 in thick that were blown about 10-15 ft away in opposite direction.
The power of nature is amazing huh?

[DREDger]

Wow, that is impressive.

When I was a USFS firefighter we often got called to lightning strike fires.  What I saw was the remaining tree would have a neat groove carved into it, as if someone took a chisel to it and made the most perfect grooved non jagged cut imaginable.

The parts of the tree blown off and scattered around would be black and charred (and on fire, hence the need to put it out).

I always figured it was the positive/negative aspects of the lightning somehow.  That the tree side would not have any burn, but the ejected side would be burned.

[DYNAMITE]

now you need to make a baseball bat