NON-Stop thunder in town

[ChuckFin]

Intense-- thunder,lightening and heavy rain now on Kahakai Blvd near Da Store.

[TomK]

Lee - from experience, if you're not sure lightning hit your house, it very likely didn't. If it hits your house, you'll know for sure!

[Guest]

Hi Lee,

Lighting has hit my house, I believe you.

[alaskyn66]

Last night's cloud cam overlooking Hilo.. was pretty impressive.


http://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/en/gallery/cloudcams/index1.php?opts=movies&moviefile=data/movies/Sep15-2016.mp4


..Bad boys,Bad boys what we gonna do...let ya out on bail for a buck or two...

[Chunkster]

Amazing images, alaskyn66. Thanks!

[MattKarma]

House got struck. Blew the inverter and the voltage-monitor (a googleplex volts? AAAAAAAaaaahhhh!). Looks like inverter has some life left, may just be a few internal fuses.

[bananahead]

Meteorologist Tom Birchard with the National Weather Service described the peak of the lightning strikes, “Upwards of 600 strikes within a 30 minute period, this is all over land, just upslope from Hilo.”

within video in link they show a map of all the strikes.. most in Keaau to MtView area
http://khon2.com/2016/09/14/hawaii-islan...r-outages/

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[PunaMauka2]

Recent lightning storms haven't quite made it all the way up to Volcano. Have heard it ominously booming downslope but never reaching striking distance. Been fine with me. Had plenty enough of that excitement last October when a lightning strike blasted a hole in the ground a few feet from the front porch. Ended up killing three hapu'u and one other small tree.

[AKpilot]

We got hit by lightning too, blew our Inverter...... : Guess we are in line for parts as lots of folks are in the same boat as us!

Lucky we live Hawaii!
[8D]

AKpilot

We're all here, because we're not all there!

[DaVinniCode]

Quite a storm! Are storms like this fairly common, Like a few a year, or a few a summer? My little makeshift rain gauge showed 4" overnight here in Hawaiian beaches top of puni makai loop.