Haboob Phoenix July 3 and Lighting Strike

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Haboob Phoenix July 3 and Lighting Strike
Haboob Phoenix July 3 and Lighting Strike

Finally got the short video uploaded that I was shooting in my back yard during the haboob storm last night. Only 26 seconds, but you can see in the dark the trees whipping around and our power pole to the far left. Turn up the sound and you'll hear just what this was like.


Just a couple seconds before I stopped recording you see the lightning hit the other pole at the back of the property! Exciting times. Power was out about ten hours. Great to see SRP out with four guys stringing a new power line from about 4 am to 5 am. They had to work in a dark alley dense with trees and fallen branches. There is one tree that took down lines to my east end of the property, a huge portion of the neighbor tree to the west of me that is still laying on lines and a chunk of a huge branch caught in other power lines to the rear of my home. Just this one little new wire perched atop the pole where the lightning struck is providing all of us neighbors power! It took out one whole block with these trees coming down on wires!


So glad to have A/C back, BTW. Lots of damage and debris to clean up today. Possible storm later! Memorable 4th of July, eh? That is NOT a cloud moving from left to right: it's the wall of dust!

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Taken on: July 4, 2014
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