I’m actually one of the weird people in the world. I’ve never been personally affected by bad weather or storms, so I don’t have a healthy fear of them. Quite the contrary, I normally like bad weather and am oddly fascinated by it.
A week or so ago, when we had all of our rainy weather, we had a weather system move through during the middle of the night. It started thundering and lightning, and a particularly loud clap of thunder (or so I thought), woke me up. And I mean, I sat up straight in the bed and must have gasped or yelled. Because then Beau jumped up and started barking (Tim says I scared him, but I think the weather scared him too!). I told Tim it sounded a lot louder than a regular clap of thunder, but he said it was fine, go back to sleep.
Come to find out the next day, our neighbor told him that lightning struck the tree behind their house. Woke our neighbors up and scared them to death too! It wasn’t as bad as I though it would be, but still sort of fascinating. I’ve never seen lightning just strip bark and not cause a burn or anything. It doesn’t look like much in these pictures, but it was all over the tree, all the way around, which I also thought was really weird. The other thing that was strange is that all of the dirt was pushed away from the base of the tree. Like the lightning had gone from the top to the bottom and then blown out, pushing all of the dirt away from the base of the trunk. It was really weird, but hard to photograph, so I didn’t get a good picture. Here’s what the stripped bark looked like, but again, this was all the way around the entire tree, so it may not look like much here, but believe me, it was pretty weird!
This is fascinating! Lightening scares the bajeebers out of me. I love Tim’s “it’s fine, go back to sleep.” LOL
Lightning is a dangerous thing. We have seen it hit here several times….cool pics….I ;ike storms…but only when I’m inside the house…:)
I’m fascinated by bad weather too. I love storms! Glad I’m not the only one;-)
Pretty awesome, actually. We see that a lot, being in FL (lightning strike capital of the world). The trees always die from it.
Isn’t it loud? I’m really surprised you’ve never heard lightning hit before? It’s SCARY loud! Every time it happens, I look for scarred trees next time I’m out. One time when I was a kid, I was playing with my neighbors in their pool, and we’d heard some rumbling thunder. We didn’t get out of the pool yet, because we didn’t think the storm was close enough. Then there was this huge BOOM out of nowhere, which was lightning hitting something very nearby. Thank goodness it didn’t happen to be that pool. :-O
Anyway, nice pics. I wish it would’ve shown the dirt all exploded away from the base.
Oh, and I’m glad you’re back to blogging again! I haven’t commented, but I’ve been reading. 🙂
I started again, too (very little), but it’s just going to be homeschooling stuff, so you won’t be too excited. LOL!
Holy smokes! That’s something else! I love a good lightning storm, as long as I’m safely in my house. My aunt had a tree get hit a long time ago and it ripped the roots right out from the tar on the driveway! Powerful stuff.
Yikes! That was close! I’m pretty skittish about cloud-to-ground lightening. I’ve seen the damage it can do.
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