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Lightning strikes a palm tree really close to my house, pics

#1 Postby HURAKAN » Tue May 25, 2010 6:31 pm

It was the biggest explosion I had ever heard in my life. I was in the computer, doing guess what, replying an email in S2k and bam!! My dad saw the palm get hit. Right after that, it catches fire. Even the firefighters came but the rain had already done their job.

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#2 Postby gatorcane » Tue May 25, 2010 8:49 pm

wow very amazing. Looks like a vibrant Malaysian Dwarf coconut palm. I wonder if it will survive this. Thanks for the pics...
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#3 Postby WeatherLovingDoc » Tue May 25, 2010 9:44 pm

Interesting that the strike appears not to travel down the palm, as they do up here with the oaks. Don't see any stripping off of the bark either.

Glad you all are ok, and Mother Nature put out her doings. Nice of her. Thank goodness for surge protectors too.

Thanks for posting the pictures and comments Hurakan.
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#4 Postby southerngale » Wed May 26, 2010 12:23 pm

Wow, that was close!
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#5 Postby tropicana » Wed May 26, 2010 12:30 pm

Great photos as always hurakan! im glad it was the tree and not your house. Poor tree though
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#6 Postby Aquawind » Wed May 26, 2010 6:10 pm

Close alright..I can imagine that was loud..
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#7 Postby CajunMama » Wed May 26, 2010 8:32 pm

You're lucky it didn't travel. Had that happen to us several years ago. Hit the band directors stand about 350' from my house. Traveled down the street. Fried my alarm system. Did nothing to my neighbor who was outside and saw it happen and he was holding an umbrella!
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#8 Postby wx247 » Thu May 27, 2010 7:39 am

Wow... kind of an eerie picture with the fire and the lightning just confined to the upper section of the tree. Thanks for sharing!!
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#9 Postby bvigal » Thu May 27, 2010 8:38 am

CajunMama wrote:You're lucky it didn't travel. Had that happen to us several years ago. Hit the band directors stand about 350' from my house. Traveled down the street. Fried my alarm system. Did nothing to my neighbor who was outside and saw it happen and he was holding an umbrella!

Ditto! Seen similar tree strike come through the air into the nearby wall of office building and fried network and modem boards in nearest computers which were unplugged from electricity source.
Awesome pics, Hurakan!!
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#10 Postby StormTracker » Thu May 27, 2010 4:28 pm

Working for Fedex for almost 22 years now, I can honestly say, that is a very scary moment when lightning strikes that close to you! If you would have been outside, you could have probably heard the molecules in the air sizzle! I've had that happen!!! From that day on I learned a very valuable lesson: ALWAYS KEEP AN EXTRA CHANGE OF CLOTHES WITH YOU!!! :oops: :oops: :oops: Thanks for sharing!
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#11 Postby HURAKAN » Fri May 28, 2010 6:07 pm

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#12 Postby gatorcane » Fri May 28, 2010 7:08 pm

wow, I guess it may not make it :uarrow:
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#13 Postby HURAKAN » Fri May 28, 2010 7:51 pm

gatorcane wrote:wow, I guess it may not make it :uarrow:


Palm trees normally don't survive a lightning strike. You will see just the trunk in a few days.
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#14 Postby gatorcane » Sat May 29, 2010 8:20 am

HURAKAN wrote:
gatorcane wrote:wow, I guess it may not make it :uarrow:


Palm trees normally don't survive a lightning strike. You will see just the trunk in a few days.


that was certainly a nice coconut palm, too bad.
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#15 Postby HURAKAN » Sun Jun 06, 2010 9:39 am

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Re: Lightning strikes a palm tree really close to my house, pics

#16 Postby Stephanie » Sun Jun 06, 2010 10:03 am

I just saw this post now. What a shame - the palm tree took it for the rest of the neighborhood. Great pictures!
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