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Old 08-21-2009, 08:57 PM
GERALDINE GERALDINE is offline
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Default Lightning Strike on 466A

I was driving to Publix this evening via 466A around 6:30 PM and ran across an area of the blvd where landscaping bushes, dirt, and pine straw were strewn over all 4 lanes of traffic going both ways. At first I was confused as to how this could be...thinking a car ran up there, vandalism, etc. Then it dawned on me...it had gotten hit by lightning!! There was, in fact, a hole in the dirt in the Blvd. WHOA...that is VERY scary indeed!!! Channel 9 said Central FL had over 15,000...that is Fifteen Thousand...lightning strikes in a 4 hour time span.