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[STORMREPORTS] Lightning News From Thu. Aug. 28

From: WeatherMatrix Admin (admin{at}weathermatrix.net)
Date: Thu Aug 28 2003 - 08:20:41 EDT


Lightning News From Thu. Aug. 28 (NY,PA,CA,MD,SD,WV,AZ,MD,NH,MT)

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LIGHTNING strikes twice: Blackout in downtown Newark - New York Daily News, NY
<http://www.nydailynews.com/front/breaking_news/story/112558p-101654c.html>
NEWARK — Downtown office buildings, a hospital and a utility’s headquarters
lost power Wednesday when circuits failed. The utility ...

LIGHTNING hits Peters Township home - Washington Observer Reporter, PA
<http://www.observer-reporter.com/366580103786512.bsp>
VENETIA - Lightning struck a house in Peters Township late Tuesday, causing
its roof to catch fire. About 10:25, Peters Township ...

ONE big lightning show in East Bay - Oakland Tribune, CA
<http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82~1865~1594220,00.html>
... When lightning struck a tree behind Susan Smith's home, the Livermore
resident thought her daughter's window on the second floor had been blown
out by the boom ...

BRIEF lightning robbed 350 homes of power, started county blazes - Merced
Sun-Star, CA
<http://www.mercedsun-star.com/news/newsview.asp?c=q772>
... light show spawned power outages all over the city, leaving about 3,500
residents without electricity and igniting a handful of small fires after
lightning ...

LIGHTNING show sparks foothill fires - Modesto Bee, CA
<http://www.modbee.com/local/story/7352562p-8274649c.html>
Firefighters chased a series of fires Tuesday after early morning lightning
salvos crackled over the Sierra foothills and Diablo Range. ...

LIGHTNING starts fire; building at Sheppard Pratt damaged - Baltimore Sun, MD
<http://www.sunspot.net/news/local/bal-md.storms28aug28,0,5937371.story?coll=\l-local-headlines>
Severe thunderstorms moving rapidly across Maryland last night fired off
a bolt of lightning that struck the five-story cupola of a Victorian building
housing ...

LIGHTNING sparks small Hills fires - Rapid City Journal, SD
<http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/08/28/news/local/news05.txt>
... in Wind Cave National Park mop up a 12-acre fire north of park
headquarters,
other blazes flared in the Black Hills on Wednesday afternoon when a lightning
...

LIGHTNING hits apartments - Daily Courier, AZ
<http://www.communitypapers.com/DAILYCOURIER/myarticles.asp?P=\1491&S={at}0&PubID=\17220>
PRESCOTT ­ The intense lightning storm that brought heavy rain to the tri-city
area Tuesday afternoon caused at least one structure fire and flooded
some ...

LIGHTNING Strikes Moundsville Home - Wheeling News Register, WV
<http://news-register.net/news/story/0827202003_new02.asp>
Lightning strikes from the violent thunderstorms that raked the Upper Ohio
Valley late Tuesday and today have been determined to have been the cause
of two ...

LIGHTNING strikes nursing home - The Citizen (BAY AREA)
<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=\16071545&BRD=\2576&PAG=F1&dept_id=\234839&rfi==6>
The lightning ignited some insulation and set the attic on fire just after
2 pm, said Webster Fire Chief Mark Baker. Smoke and fire ...

LIGHTNING strike causes Hampshire house fire - Cumberland Times News, MD
<http://216.15.229.16/news/full_story.cfm?story_id=\21238>
... Locally, a lightning strike was the apparent cause of a house fire
Wednesday in Hampshire County. Capon Springs Fire Department ...

MERRIMACK family loses beloved dog to lightning strike - Nashua 1590 Broadcaster, NH
<http://www.1590.com/Stories/0,1413,222~23677~1597164,00.html>
By JOHN COLLINS, The Broadcaster. MERRIMACK Six-year-old Madison Boerner
has always been afraid of lightning, according to her mother. ...

LIGHTNING storms spark wildfires - Polson Lake County Leader, MT
<http://leaderadvertiser.com/index.asp?Sec==News&str=\1925>
By Jim Blow. Last week's thunderstorms brought lightning strikes and high
wind started at least eight small fires on Tuesday evening, Aug. 19. ...

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