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A huge storm cell that stretched across a broad area of Central Florida produced a lightning show late Tuesday afternoon. At its peak, the storm produced about 1,000 lightning strikes every 15 minutes, mostly in the Gulf. St. PeteTimes photographer Jim Damaske captured several impressive strikes from a vantage point near the Clearwater Memorial Causeway bridge, looking across the harbor toward Clearwater Beach.
Kaboom!!...Great Lightning Pictures
Tue Aug 18, 2009 8:08 PM EDT
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great photographer, great pics. hope you enjoyed them.
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#1 - Tue Aug 18, 2009 8:08 PM EDTFantastic pics! Love thunderstorms and lightening storms. It's fun when Mama Nature has a temper tantrum, isn't it? Well, so long as no one gets hurt, I mean...
Thanks for sharing those!
How are you feeling these days? Are you recovering?
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Well alrighty then, mischief is always a fun thing! I try not to let myself ever get bored for fear that mischief and trouble will come knocking on my door ;-)
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First... great find on the pics. love exciting weather shots. We had a storm in jacksonville few days ago and I saw lighting strike a nearby cellphone tower... kinda neat.
Second... what are all these tests for that somehow I seem to be the only one out of the loop on? lol
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How are you feeling these days? Are you recovering?
more tests scheduled for friday
I meant like this.
Also... what tracker would those quizes come up on? I'm not entirly sure I know how to use the tracker thing. lol
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oh goodness... htta's usually up over 1,000 I don't have time for all that lol
or maybe I have too many on the friends list?
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Your friends list has a check box next to each friend, you can uncheck if your not following what they are commenting on.
You can go to Maddads column if you want o find out more about the tests.
okay Maddad?
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Or I could ask maddad if I want to know more about the tests?
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Excellent pics, look lighting storms.
Off topic, loving the new pic for MADDAD, just how I feel sometimes. Too cute.
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#2 - Tue Aug 18, 2009 8:11 PM EDTMe too, it's fitting right now with how the economy, health care mess. He's cute. I sent a friend's request for you. Just another sheep, ou with so many followers.
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Love the pics!! I'm fascinated by weather. As long as I don't get hurt.
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#4 - Tue Aug 18, 2009 9:15 PM EDTLife traveler- Ditto- How soes it go you count the seconds from the thunder sound, then comes the lightening, or vice versa? We used to count many moons ago when I was a kid.
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see lightning, start counting until you hear thunder... I think the ratio is supposed to be one mile away for every second...
see lightning, hear thunder simultaneously-- get indoors NOW!!!
see lightning, fall down, hear only a loud buzzing-- you're toasted!
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About one mile for every 5 seconds. As an athletic trainer we use the 30 second flash to bang ratio to get people off the fields. (Though I try to get them moving before that!)
Great photos! Thanks for putting them up. When I am not working I love to watch storms!
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Wow! Those are great pictures! Thanks for finding them, Maddad!
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#5 - Tue Aug 18, 2009 9:22 PM EDTglad everyone is enjoying the pics. Jim Damaske is a local photographer with the newspaper, i look for his stuff whenever it is around. he deserves all the credit, i just clicked a couple buttons and hit post. this guy is fairly talented. IMO
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#6 - Tue Aug 18, 2009 9:26 PM EDTDid you get his permission to post his pics here? I don't even see a credit under each of the pics. Isn't this a copyright violation?
Why did you write this as an article when you could just have seeded to the original?
http://blogs.tampabay.com/photo/2009/08/kaboom-lightning-over-clearwater-beach.html
Really cool photos Maddad, he is a great photographer for sure. Thanks
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#7 - Tue Aug 18, 2009 10:06 PM EDTWow those are some impressive photos! Thanks for sharing...
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#8 - Tue Aug 18, 2009 11:16 PM EDTIt's not easy to get lightning photos. There is a sensor you can get for your camera to help with the timing.
Thanks for sharing Maddad
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#9 - Tue Aug 18, 2009 11:34 PM EDTAwesome photos! I love thunder storms. Many moons ago when I was young, I had an old, not so old then, box Brownie camera. Stood outside during a thunder storm in Bakersfield CA and got a good one. I was so proud of that. I do miss those good ol' storms. Here on the Central Coast we don't see them too often. Got any more?
I'm new to the Vine. Just floatin' around checkin' out what's here. I can see already there is enough for everyone.
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#10 - Wed Aug 19, 2009 1:11 AM EDTDon't know what to say with an open mouth! Electrifyingly horrific if you are in one under it!
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#11 - Wed Aug 19, 2009 4:53 AM EDTAwesome pics. Photographing electrical storms is one of my favorite things to do. I get a real charge out of it ! ;)
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#12 - Wed Aug 19, 2009 11:14 AM EDTHey, maddad, thanks for the pics. Those are awesome! I'm a huge fan of lightning photography both for its technical difficulty and its visual impact. I would never usually do this because I think it's in bad taste, but I'd like you to see some more pictures here (it's a link to one of my seeds). If that rubs you wrong way, please delete this comment, but I think you'll really like the pics. Take care.
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#13 - Thu Aug 20, 2009 10:45 AM EDTWow, maddad, you drive some serious traffic. Just with that one small link in your column, you became the fourth largest traffic source to my page (over 1% of my total). You are awesome and I am not. Thanks for the boost.
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