Lightning Strikes!

During a severe thunderstorm in Bangor, Maine, I decided to grab my camera and just see what I would catch. I caught a lot... and it nearly caught me... TWICE!

The first is a lightning strike near the apartment complex where I am at in Bangor... note the very fine bolt of lightning that rose out of the ground, but, fortunately, didn't connect with the main bolt from the sky, which struck not very far away (note how soon the thunder clap was)

Then, as the storms continued, I went out that night... and was almost struck again! The telephone pole around 300 feet away or so, got zapped nicely!

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[54spiritedwill54]

Wow that is amazing! Great lightning bolts. I love thunderstorms :)

5 stars on the video!

[Splinterfan]

I grew up in the Maritimes up north to Maine. Theres a lot of wicked awesome lighting storms on the Eastcoast

[sligoman81]

holy shit! awesome, just posted my own vid, but lightning storms in ireland are never as bad as that.

[Anacinc]

Wow! Awesome!

We had the BIG one last night which treated us in South western part of Holland with 3 Mesoscale Convective Systems in a row, each followup more intense with approx. 1000 discharges a minute! Seems to be the most severe system that entered Holland in 25 years. Just check here on YT. Footages already posted.

The sound of the last thunderstorm coming in seemed like a heavy Roman army coming our way due to this heavy dischargecount . I never felt as anxious as I did last night!

[Avalon041167]

That crackling noise says its a close one and boy was it. That would have had me running under the stairs or the table. I love lightning but it still scares the crap out of me though. Very, very rarely do we get anything like that in the UK. It has to get extremely hot first and then any storms we do get don't last that long and are over with quite quickly.

[Julsinmaine101]

awesome video~

[alexx422]

HOLY KRAP!!!

[200twistatwista]

Sweet Cracking of thunder on the second bolt.

[Onweergek]

Yes, what bulldog said. I'm a photographer and chaser too and this happens lots of times. Many ppl. get confused with this. Anyway... nice catch!

[Bulldog8281]

Just so you know that close bolt that looked like was right in front of you is actually an optical affect created by the beginning of the more distant strike. Lightning occurs so quickly modern video cameras are unable to decipher distance quickly enough. I am a photographer for the National Weather Service and this happens very often. We have some new high speed video cameras that solve this problem but they are $3,000 or more.