[hanamizu]

I grew up in Long Beach, Cal. I can remember lightning causing a flash in the sky, but never saw lightning strikes like you see in these pics. When I saw them in movies, I thought they were not real.

Get to see a lot of lightning in SE Missouri.

[Jeff Chandler]

Long Beach, Cal

I grew up in the L.A. basin, also, and they just don't get dramatic lightning there.

I took a job running a dive shop in Tucson and boy howdy do they get it. Not unlike the photos here. And pretty much every evening in the summer.

But the most awesome lightning storm I ever saw was down in Guaymas, Mexico. It was a chubasco over the Sea of Cortez. The lightning was so continuous you could read a book by it.

[pfflier]

When I was stationed at Vandenberg AFB in 1979 we had one of these storms roll in. The lightning was so constant it was like a florescent light. There was no distinction in thunder claps either. It was just a continuous roaring rumble.

The oddball thing was the next morning we went to our favorite beach at Gaviota and the storm raged a few miles inland behind the mountains.

We had one of the best warmest and mostly sunny days I can ever remember there. Usually it was foggy damp and cold.