Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Free Electricity in Ames

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Skies south west of Ames lit up with multiple lightning bolts tonight about 9:45 PM. I only saw one bolt as I worked with the camera, but I got four for the price of one! It is now summer in Iowa, and most likely skies will be lit up like this rather often.
Bob Kelly
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5 comments:

  1. LINDSEEJune 18, 2009 at 12:46 AM

    beautiful!

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  2. Ur-spoJune 18, 2009 at 12:56 AM

    I miss midwestern thunderstorms very much.
    I would move back just to have them.

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  3. NessaJune 18, 2009 at 6:10 AM

    Wow. Spectacular.

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  4. JamesJune 18, 2009 at 11:36 AM

    That's awesome! Ada Hayden I presume?

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  5. Bob KellyJune 18, 2009 at 2:02 PM

    Hi James...

    I was about 1.5 miles east of the Gilbert corner on a gravel road, with the camera pointing to the SW back to Ames. The radio towers are about 2-3 miles SW of the Towers dorms at ISU.
    The lightning bolts were at least 20 miles away from me, and I was using a 200mm telephoto lens, and also cropped the image slightly.

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