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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.
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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Science; Weather
KEYWORDS: california; goldengatebridge; lightningstrike; philmcgrew; sanfrancisco
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To: Qwackertoo
As long as they were in the car and not walking they would be fine.The rubber tires of the car insulate them from the current.
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posted on
04/13/2012 7:41:00 PM PDT
by
HANG THE EXPENSE
(Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
To: hinckley buzzard
Yea, you’re right. If they were all at once you would see headlights and taillights as if they were standing still.
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posted on
04/13/2012 7:43:40 PM PDT
by
stevio
(God, guns, guts.)
To: Lorianne
To: Qwackertoo
Wow, I hope people werent driving across it at the time.See that solid stream of light tracking the highway across the bridge? That's headlights of traffic. Lots of people crossed while the photographer was waiting for enough strikes to hit to make the photo he wanted.
Nice picture but no big deal to get it.
To: HANG THE EXPENSE
Well, not really. The metal mass of the car around them is what gives them protection.
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posted on
04/13/2012 7:44:39 PM PDT
by
Past Your Eyes
(Women and cats will do as they please; men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.)
To: Lorianne
Great picture...quite a view from the apartment.
Anybody have the details on camera, lens, settings?
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posted on
04/13/2012 7:48:24 PM PDT
by
O6ret
To: HANG THE EXPENSE
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posted on
04/13/2012 7:50:24 PM PDT
by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: stevio
EggZackly.
To: Lorianne
That was quite a storm that generated it! Right outside my window, too (but I didn’t take a nice picture). We were lucky the power stayed out. We had thunderclaps every five minutes, it seemed.
To: Lorianne
Why do I count “nine” strikes?
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posted on
04/13/2012 7:54:20 PM PDT
by
Gertie
To: Revolting cat!
“I, for one, welcome our new Stone Masters.”
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posted on
04/13/2012 7:54:51 PM PDT
by
Erasmus
(BHO: New supreme leader of the homey rollin' empire.)
To: Lorianne
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posted on
04/13/2012 7:55:49 PM PDT
by
A.A. Cunningham
(Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
To: Lorianne
Well, there goes that $ 205,000 bush!
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posted on
04/13/2012 7:56:39 PM PDT
by
exit82
(Democrats are the enemies of freedom. Be Andrew Breitbart.)
To: Gertie
I saw another report (after I posted this) that said it was nine.
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posted on
04/13/2012 7:56:49 PM PDT
by
Lorianne
(fedgov, taxporkmoney)
To: Jet Jaguar
Uhmm, that’s nine bolts of lightning, not eight.
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posted on
04/13/2012 7:57:48 PM PDT
by
Gargantua
("Time to pump the cesspool, the stench is getting noxious.")
To: Kirkwood
Named after the English scientist Michael Faraday, who eventually grew so unruly they had to keep him in a cage.
≤}B^)
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posted on
04/13/2012 8:00:06 PM PDT
by
Erasmus
(BHO: New supreme leader of the homey rollin' empire.)
To: Lorianne
And under enhancement, there is even a tenth bolt striking way down at the far end of the bridge, so faint that it's barely visible
in situ. Amazing.
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posted on
04/13/2012 8:01:16 PM PDT
by
Gargantua
("Time to pump the cesspool, the stench is getting noxious.")
To: Lorianne
The lighting not striking a tower looks like it might be hitting something near the ground on the far shore. or not.
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posted on
04/13/2012 8:03:40 PM PDT
by
ThomasThomas
("Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!")
To: Past Your Eyes
I thought it was the damn tires.
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posted on
04/13/2012 8:12:12 PM PDT
by
HANG THE EXPENSE
(Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
To: Lorianne
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posted on
04/13/2012 8:15:22 PM PDT
by
GOP Poet
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