A shocking record: Lightning bolt stretched 515 miles, crossed three states

NBC News ^ | July 31, 2025 | Denise Chow

[Fledermaus]

Kite, key, jar.

[logi_cal869]

They both told me it really hurts.

Funny. I'd have said, "I wish I knew how to do that to progressives."

[Fledermaus]

Looks like God making a circuit board.

[Fledermaus]

It does. I got struck twice. First was a lightning ball while I was in the shower. Lost everything plugged in.

Second time a bolt hit a wall and came through a window and knocked me over while sitting at a desk.

Not much damage from that one. Only one lamp.

[missthethunder]

Duh! Everybody knows that!

1.21 Jigga watts

It was in a movie.🍿

It is known.

lol

[gitmo]

I remember as a teenager visiting one of my many great-aunts in Asheville, NC.

A thunderstorm started and she loudly warned all of us to stay away from the kitchen.

I later peeked into the kitchen. Small lightning balls were dripping from the faucet, crackling around the sink, and going down the drain.

She says it always does that when it is thundering outside.

[Getready]

From what I have read, during Franklins time, one of the ideas about electricity, was that it was a liquid and flowed as one.
FWIW

[farm_kid]

Lightning in the side-view mirror.

[SunkenCiv]

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[the_Watchman]

“I wonder what it is near KC that would generate such a charge...“

They’ve got a crazy way of lovin there and I’ma gonna get me some!

[minnesota_bound]

There have been reports of people being struck by lightning with clear blue skies all around.

[minnesota_bound]

#26 she was making white lightning.... ⚡