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From: Jesse Ferrell (WeatherMatrix) (ferrell{at}weathermatrix.net)
Date: Thu Apr 29 2004 - 08:29:05 EDT
FULL STORY:
http://www.norwichbulletin.com/news/stories/20040429/localnews/316586.html
QUOTES:
"Rivers, along with members of his department and two other Thompson fire
companies, responded to a call on Reardon Road shortly after 6 p.m. when
residents reported their house had been struck by lightning.
"We had just pulled up and I was putting my air pack on when a second
lightning bolt hit,"...
Rivers said the lightning struck a utility pole near the home at 320
Reardon Road, traveled along the utility wires into the house and blew the
electrical meter in the basement off the wall. Rivers said the lightning
traveled through the house, damaging some walls and knocking items on to
the floor before exiting the opposite side of the house.
It then followed an outside underground electric line, slamming through a
concrete patio or walkway and a concrete retaining wall that was several
inches thick. The lightning dug a trench through the ground that
Verraneault estimated was about 21/2 feet wide by about 35 feet long,
ricocheted off metal poles in a garden and finally grounded itself in an
outdoor well house.
"As bad as the damage was inside, the outside damage was even more
amazing," Rivers said. "We looked on the roof, and there were clumps of sod
and chunks of concrete all over it. I've never seen anything like this."
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