This past Saturday (May 21) Lady Diva and I got to experince the joys of feeding our horses during a thunderstorm. We were almost done when a krack-aFLASH-boom stopped us in our tracks. There was a lighting strike very close by. Sunday it was still raining, so we didn’t go sight-seeing. But on Monday we found the tree the lighting hit, the tree was very close by (about a block away for you city folk). The following pictures are of the aftermath, and if I did things right the thumbnails should pop open a new widow of the full size picture.

This is the whole tree, as you are coming up to it. It doesn’t look all that different, until you notice that it’s missing most of it’s bark.

When you get up to the tree, you can see a blast radius defined by the tree bark that was blasted off. Some of the bark went up to six feet from the tree.

An upclose picture of some tree bark. It was blasted off in strips, but some of it was pretty twisted up.

There is now a crack that runs the whole length of the tree. If you look closly at this picture, you can see that the crack runs completely through the tree, and you can see through it.

Another picture of the crack. Although you can’t see through the tree from this angle.

This was a true “deer-in-headlights” kind of moment for both Lady Diva and myself. The flash stopped us both in our tracks, we knew it had been very close, just not how close.

Posted by F1_error on Tuesday, May 24th, 2005 at 6:35 am.