Phil, I thought of that too, I haven't heard thunder like that since I was a 
kid.  and boy did it rain, the thing is it didn't cool our house down as 
much as I'd have liked.  But we've had the windows opened for about two days 
now.


Lelia
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 9:48 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.
>
>
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