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Rainstorms, lightning kill 48 in south, central China


Reuters
Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:16 UTC
Heavy rainstorms along with lightning and hail since last week have hit many parts of China, killing nearly 50 people, destroying farmland and sweeping away houses.

On Monday afternoon, lightning killed five people building a tomb in Zhejiang. Altogether 48 people have died and 12 are missing after a week of heavy rains and thunderstorms that swept up the Yangtze River valley and across southern China.
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US: Lawman's car hit by lightning


Associated Press
Sat, 23 Jun 2007 06:54 UTC
Walworth County, South Dakota Deputy Sheriff Chuck Davidson answers to a new nickname. "They're all calling me Sparky," said Davidson, whose patrol vehicle was hit by lightning. "I just feel sorry for my poor patrol car."

Davidson was on U.S. Highway 83 when the lightning hit at about 7 a.m. Thursday.

"All of a sudden, there was a flash, a bang and then there was a bunch of sparks on the road behind the vehicle," he said. "Everything in the vehicle turned off, and I coasted to the side of the road."
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Flooding, More Rain Drench South Florida


WVTJ-TV
Sat, 16 Jun 2007 23:07 UTC
More rain is falling in South Florida, on the heels of a line of fierce thunderstorms that flooded several neighborhoods Friday. The National Weather Service has issued a hazardous weather outlook for South Florida through Saturday night.

Forecasters said thunderstorms with heavy rain and dangerous lightning will stick around most of the day into Sunday morning.
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Lightning and torrential rain lashes Germany


Deutsche Presse-Agentur
Sat, 16 Jun 2007 22:33 UTC
Snowploughs were needed to clear hail in Munich and a Berlin museum was flooded when lightning and torrential rain lashed Germany during the night, emergency officials said Saturday morning.
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Idaho storm: Quicker than a lightning bolt

Marc Stewart
CDAPress.com
Tue, 05 Jun 2007 13:57 UTC
A storm that rolled through North Idaho Monday night sank a sailboat, blew a hole in a concrete wall and knocked out power to thousands of homes.

Climatologist Cliff Harris said he counted more than 100 hundred lightning strikes during the storm, which lasted two and half hours.

"It was one of the top five thunderstorms since 1990 because of its duration," Harris said. "It was like a war zone."



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Multiple bolts of lightning strike the mountains surrounding Coeur d'Alene on Monday night.

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Lightning damages Jesus statue

Jennifer Brown
Denver Post
Mon, 21 May 2007 10:11 UTC
Don't look for any religious symbolism here - it was only a freak act of Mother Nature, says Sister Ilaria.

The nuns at Mother Cabrini Shrine in Golden were thanking God on Sunday that no one was hurt when a bolt of lightning shot out of the sky and struck their 33-foot statue of Jesus.



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The statue, damaged Saturday, was sent from Italy in sections in 1954. No one was hurt by the falling pieces.


The lightning bolt broke off one of Jesus' arms and a hand and damaged one of his feet, sending marble plummeting to the ground during a Saturday afternoon storm.
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Storms wreak havoc in Europe and Turkey, 23 dead

Reuters
Yahoo! News
Mon, 28 May 2007 10:14 UTC
Diyarbakir, Turkey - Heavy storms, landslides, flash floods and lightning have killed at least 23 people in Europe and Turkey, officials said on Monday.

Nine people died in eastern Turkey, including six killed in severe flooding in mountainous Agri province near the Iranian border, where river waters were swollen by melting snows. Two more people were missing.
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Lightning kills 7 in southwest China village


Xinhua
Thu, 24 May 2007 03:50 UTC
A lightning strike killed seven students and injured 30 others in a village school on Wednesday afternoon in southwest China, said local authorities.

The lightning struck the school while children were attending class at around 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, in a primary school in Xingye Village, Kaixian County of Chongqing Municipality, said officials.
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The Empire Strike Building


Daily Mail
Sat, 19 May 2007 05:47 UTC
Like a molten thread of white heat, lightning cuts across the grey skies above midtown Manhattan to find the top of the Empire State Building.

The storm yesterday afternoon was part of the latest blast of bad weather to hit New York.

The murky skies and lightning, seen from across the East River in this dramatic picture, were accompaniedby 72mph winds and a deluge which saw an inch of rain fall in nearby Central Park.
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Cyprus Airways plane hit by lightning


Cyprus Mail
Thu, 10 May 2007 05:49 UTC
A Cyprus Airways (CY) flight to Athens was forced to abort and return to Larnaca airport yesterday morning after its right engine was struck by lightning.

The Airbus A319, carrying 118 passengers and seven crew, took off from Larnaca at 9.30am and was struck by lightening over Paphos. As a precaution, the captain decided to turn the plane around and head back to Larnaca.
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