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San Franfrazzled: Once-in-a-lifetime picture of lightning striking iconic bridge
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 13 April 2012

Posted on 04/13/2012 7:10:18 PM PDT by Lorianne

An incredible eight bolts struck the Bay Bridge in San Francisco last night which was captured in this incredible shot by photographer Phil McGrew, who took the photo through the rain-soaked window of his apartment.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Science; Weather
KEYWORDS: california; goldengatebridge; lightningstrike; philmcgrew; sanfrancisco
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To: hinckley buzzard
Nice picture but no big deal to get it.

It is a big deal out here. We almost never get a storm like that. This must have been the first thunderstorm in the Bay Area in 10 years.

It's not the difficulty of the picture, it's the rarety of the event.

-PJ

41 posted on 04/13/2012 8:23:00 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you can vote for President, then your children can run for President.)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free
I even have the scars to prove it. Not physical scars, but the emotional scars of having to live in San Francisco for 8 years and the bay area for 12. You wouldn’t think that just living in a congested city for of rude, selfish opportunists would destroy you emotionally and mentally, but believe me, it took a real toll. I don’t see how any nice person can survive living there, and to be a conservative — well, I can say I nearly did not survive mentally.

At a California Republican state convention, I met a Chinese-American who lived in The City, as Northern Californians call SF. He said that living there was like living in an insane asylum.

When I'm in town, I usually pick up a loaf of sourdough Boudin bread and eat ravioli at the Cafferata on Columbus and Filbert, but I'm not sure I would want to live there.

42 posted on 04/13/2012 8:23:47 PM PDT by Fiji Hill (Deo Vindice!)
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To: Lorianne

WOW..what a beautiful picture.


43 posted on 04/13/2012 8:25:35 PM PDT by Conservative4Ever (Waiting for the new tagline to download)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Thanks for bringing up that point. Growing up in the bay area, lighting/thunder storms were rare...this would have been very rare...time lapse photo or not.


44 posted on 04/13/2012 8:33:37 PM PDT by Conservative4Ever (Waiting for the new tagline to download)
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To: Kirkwood
Actually the car body acts as a Faraday cage.

In 1992, I was driving down the Baker Grade, north of Baker, in San Bernardino County, Calif. into a storm. Ahead of me, lightning strikes were happening one after another--it seemed as there was one every few seconds. However, I got through the storm all right and stopped for a baklava and some Middle Eastern coffee at the Mad Greek in Baker. The previous day, I had driven under a funnel cloud at Mountain Pass, about 10 miles north of the Baker Grade.

45 posted on 04/13/2012 8:34:21 PM PDT by Fiji Hill (Deo Vindice!)
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To: the invisib1e hand
"octozot."

Savin' it to MY zot-pic file, you betcha!

46 posted on 04/13/2012 8:35:27 PM PDT by redhead (Alaska: Step out of the bus and into the food chain.)
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To: Lorianne

The surreal colors are striking as well.


47 posted on 04/13/2012 8:37:00 PM PDT by citizencon
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To: citizencon

We had lightening here on the coast of San Diego this afternoon..very rare.


48 posted on 04/13/2012 8:57:14 PM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: citizencon

I thought lightning didn’t strike twice in the same place.


49 posted on 04/13/2012 8:58:17 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: Fiji Hill

Yes, awesome tourist city. You need to stay 2 weeks to see and do everything. Just the liberal/opportunistic mentality of the residents make living hell for everyone, and if you are conservative it is 3x worse.

Even going back for a visit I get constant reminders. I get off a ramp and there are druggie/alchie bums panhandling. I cross a street and their is a poster for some gay sex website. I drive down a street, and there is a crowd of critical mass bicyclists blocking traffic. Here a gay parade. There an anti-war protest. Nuclear free zone. Save the whales. COEXIST bumper stickers everywhere. On and on without end.

But as a tourist city it is hard to beat, and everyone should make an extended visit at least once or twice in their lives. It is a beautiful city with a lot to do.


50 posted on 04/13/2012 9:11:38 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (REPEAL OBAMACARE. Nothing else matters.)
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To: Lorianne

Sickening this was covered by foreign press.

DailyMail is better than any MSM outlet, period.


51 posted on 04/13/2012 9:15:01 PM PDT by quantim (Obama = #theoccupier on twitter.)
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To: Political Junkie Too

I got hail in my yard today as big as peas. It was like a yard full of white frozen peas, and took a good while to melt where they weren’t sitting in the flood from the downpour. But I’m near Sacramento, not in the SF bay area. I think the SF Giants got rained out.

Yep, some cool storms lately.


52 posted on 04/13/2012 9:18:48 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (REPEAL OBAMACARE. Nothing else matters.)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free
"awesome tourist city"

? I didn't ever see anything worth the trip. Not even enough to fill a single afternoon. Could never understand the attraction or mystique. Couldn't wait to head out of the city and up or down the coast. Live 750 miles away (not far enough!).

53 posted on 04/13/2012 9:24:38 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature not nurture TM)
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To: Lorianne

bttt


54 posted on 04/13/2012 10:19:52 PM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (Unnngh! To many PDS people!)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

At Columbus and Broadway, I once encountered a homeless person who implored me to help “an old wino.” I almost gave him some money because of his honesty.


55 posted on 04/13/2012 10:48:09 PM PDT by Fiji Hill (Deo Vindice!)
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To: Jet Jaguar; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Swordmaker

Thanks Jet Jaguar.


56 posted on 04/13/2012 11:04:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (FReepathon 2Q time -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Brad's Gramma; SWAMPSNIPER

Wow!


57 posted on 04/14/2012 1:18:50 AM PDT by glock rocks (optimist , pessimist? I'm an awesomist - There's a dragon in that glass!)
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To: Brad's Gramma; SWAMPSNIPER

Wow!


58 posted on 04/14/2012 1:18:59 AM PDT by glock rocks (optimist , pessimist? I'm an awesomist - There's a dragon in that glass!)
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To: glock rocks

Wow!
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Back
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Atcha!
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:)

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59 posted on 04/14/2012 1:26:53 AM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (PRAY for this country like your life depends on it......because it DOES!)
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To: Brad's Gramma

A 9 second double-tap. My web pages lock the buttons when you submit. (Just lookin out for the fat fingered on their iPhones. :o)


60 posted on 04/14/2012 1:42:15 AM PDT by glock rocks (optimist , pessimist? I'm an awesomist - There's a dragon in that glass!)
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