Dang! YIKES!

At 10:48 PM 7/27/2007, Phil Scovell said:

>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.