Lightening Calgary Alberta August 3, 2009 around 2am

In Calgary, Alberta, Canada. This is the best of about 15 minutes of video. The last ~3.5 minutes are just lightening and the rest is the storm, most if taken before the lightening. The closest and craziest strike, at less than a block away (as far as I can tell) is around 3:25.

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• lightening
• calgary
• alberta
• storm
• weather

[gogtjgog]

i wa sin bed when it happend, the winds and the rain hail were so intense, that i thought something was coming, i could of sworn i could hear a rumble, like something big was coming, like a tornado, people say they sound like on coming freight trains, thankfuly nothing did, but i herd news later there was a tornado outsid ethe city

[maximum1able]

GEEZUS PAUSE AT 2:18! D:

[MegadethPWNMetallica]

@SONICBOOM1011, that would be a drunk person

[yorkfield283]

@pentica cochrane, amirite?

[SONICBOOM1011]

did anyone else hear that freaky sound from 2:37- 2:50 when the lightening struck?

[pentica]

beautiful

[pentica]

god i loved that storm, knocked out the power where i live west of there, and struck the nearby radio towers, it was freakin awesome!

[metalgearonlineowner]

This storm was crazy. the lighthing was so bright and the wind and rain was sooo loud. it was one of the craziest storms ive seen in calgary

[L3BL1F3]

i was in bc when this happened , wow calgary has never had a storm like this

[PrettyBrg]

I work the night shift at a hotel in Airdrie, I was there when it happened. It was nuts, the doors kept on blowing open and I was like what the? Looked outside saw it was really windys and went back to work. The doors kept on blowing open and the second time I checked suddenly rain all over. The power kept on cutting out and I had like half the hotel come down to the lobby. One guy called and was like lol internet is down...