Showing posts with label lightning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lightning. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Phone photo 1749

Guns and Hoses baseball game, where the police and firemen square off at the McCleary Bear Festival. During the game we had the worst lightning storm in recent memory, complete with torrential rain, hail, and thunderbolts directly above. And still they played. No real Grays Harbor County guy is going to be the first to admit they have enough sense to get out of the rain, much less potential lightning strikes.

And that is part of the reason I choose to live here in McCleary. This town, as the masthead of the old McCleary Stimulater newspaper used to declare, is as "Independent as a Hog on Ice." There is no logical reason why this village should be here, yet here we are. Bezango WA 985.


Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Phone photo 1585

Tree debarked by lightning
Vancouver, Washington

Phone photo 1584

Tree blown to smithereens by lightning
Vancouver, Washington

Phone photo 1583

Trees hit by lightning
Vancouver, Washington

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Trees hit by lightning
Vancouver, Washington

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Trees hit by lightning
Vancouver, Washington