October 7, 2009: KABOOOOOOM Lightning hit!

  We had a powerful lightning hit on October 1st.  Knocked out our cable and a few outlets.  The explosion from the lightning was so loud that it hurt our ears for awhile afterwards.

  We couldn’t find the lightning strike, but I knew it had to be close.  We saw the sparks out the south window.

  Today I found the strike.  🙂  Walking around the yard I started finding debris from a tree.  Shredded wood.  It was all the way up to the house.  Then I looked over our neighbors fence and there stood a tall tree that had been stripped of its bark and looked shredded.  You could still smell the fresh wood.

  Thankfully it wasn’t worse.  At least the tree is still standing and nothing caught on fire.

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Shredded tree in our yard.  The debris extended out about 100′