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Old 09-01-2015, 11:01 AM
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Originally Posted by BlueStreak View Post
Lightning is cool, though. I remember the night a bolt blew apart the apple tree outside my bedroom window in Ohio. Split the trunk right down the middle and knocked every apple on the ground. Just before it hit, I could feel the charge in the air, the hair on my arms stood up.
I miss those. For some reason, they're extremely rare in the Bay Area and, on the rare occasions when they do happen, they're over the Bay itself which is around 30 miles away.
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