Lightning strikes in my backyard! Chicago 8/4/08

[pashiidesign]

loool AHHH! nice vid

[LittleBizzle21]

4:38 BOOM!

[theYoda98]

4:27

[bohrokthunder]

the thunder rumbleing is awesome really ads to the effect of an intense storm

[bohrokthunder]

lol man yelling

[monster1751]

lighting struck my back yard yesterday :O

[flubberdubber]

3:07

[v3eclipseR]

ya it does get pretty bad here with lightning i saw lightning hit my street a few times and hit my neighbors sidewalk once which was nearly 15ft from where i was standing. never go out in the rain lol

[victormig1]

holly shit that was close

[autisticotakugirl]

If you look closely on the lower middle left side of the screen at around 4:25, there's a strange light that seems to jump right after lightning flashes. It's weird because you see it when it's dark so it doesn't seem to be a reflection from the lightning. You can also hear something at almost the exact time as that light. Does anyone know what it might be?

[Amras87]

@autisticotakugirl thats the magnetic radiation that comes from the lightning en it affects the camera.... so the strange light you see isn't real, but is made by the camera itself cause its exposed to magnetic fields from the lightining

[BrokerJohannes]

2:20 = looks like daytime

[tailsluvr]

that was horrific i was in it

[rolandorosales1]

SHIT! sounded like a gun!

[daisy1087655]

pause- 2:20

[southdhector]

Thunderstorm season is starting up again in Chicago!!!!!

[EmpireLS56KW]

You do realize its the "war of the worlds!" They travel down though the lightning stream so they can take over Chicago. LOL

wow that was nice the storm is quiet...

[darkahnubis]

yeah it took me multiple times at 4:38-:39 to pause and see it. when i finally saw it, it does look like day time!! what a trip!!

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[7FridayGirl109]

that happened to me, wel something lik e it. i swear there was a split second between the flash and the ginormous BOOM!

[BiBiDottie]

dang that sounded like a gun shot

[monk3yman25]

pause at 4:27

[Charlykit]

4.48! If you pause it at just the right time it looks like its daytime it so lit up!

[Codeman1215]

right at 4:38-9 it looks like its moening very bright strike right there.

[southdhector]

how far do you think the lightning bolt was? some people at my work are saying it was 1 whole block away...i think it was at most 25 feet away.

[Taghyra]

You usually count the seconds between seeing the lightning and hearing the thunder, and you divide that by 5 and it gives you an approximation on how many miles away the lighting was.

[AgentWhite95]

realy...

how bout feets?

[PositivelyBored]

@southdhector

great video.

the lightning was no further than 50 to 100 feet away. I have been directly struck as well as have had several "close" within a few hundred feet. You can hear the snapping sound before the flash - typically in a lightning strike that is over 250-500 feet away, the flash will be roughly equidistant with the "snap" in time and space.

In this case either sound travels faster than light or it's less than 100 feet, so we know the answer.

[Onweergek]

awesome video! the lightning was already striking pretty close to your location! so you were already in danger.. and see what happends! hehe.. nice vid man!

[pashiidesign]

whoaaa! see you had a share tooo!

[AssassinKirk29]

Wow!!! 4:48