We had a bad storm here on Thursday that lasted about two hours.  The 
lightning was intense and the wind blew like crazy.  I am glad all of you 
are safe and have no damage from the storm.

Virgie and lady Hoshi
doing business at

www.vunderwood.ktostemtech.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 11:48 PM
Subject: Lightning Storms in Denver


> This afternoon, we had some of the most intences thunder and lightning
> storms, it should be stated the other way around but nobody every says it
> that way, that I have witnessed since lightning hit my 65 foot ham radio
> tower about 10 years ago.  It lasted for well over an hour and storm after
> storm bumped into each other as they developed over the mountains.  I was
> watching satellite TV news near what I thought was the end of the storm,
> famous last words, when the TV blinked off and on.  I thought it was a 
> power
> failure but my computer a few feet away didn't reboot so it wasn't that. 
> A
> split second later, the biggest bang you ever heard exploded.  The strike
> had to have been in the immediate neighborhood.  Since sat dishes point to
> the southern skies, the lightning bolt must have passed through its field 
> of
> sight and blocked the incoming sat signal for that split second of time.
> That's the only way I could figure it happened.  When you can hear stitic
> crashes at those super high sat frequencies, it is closer, way closer, 
> than
> you want to be.
>
> Phil.