5/27/10 West Hartford, CT: Lightning crashes - power line turns into smoke monster

[rainyburb]

The transformation of the soil into glass was insane! Did not expect to see the ground look the way it did in the morning. Huge blasts, followed by what seemed like an angry volcano on the verge of erupting with all that smoke gushing out, definitely freaked me out. When the electric sparks started going nuts, that was my cue to run...

[uconnn]

@rainyburb jogged by here today, thanks for leaving the address to check out this video!

[NoWattz]

I was going to ask if it had burned holes in the sidewalk. I guess it did. It's kind of amazing it melted the soil into glass.