Lightning strike on power pole, Chicago

[albertson]

Chicago Illinois, Anja Englert captures lightning strike that explodes a pole next to the road.https://youtu.be/LIC0_fDp1Xw
Lots of pole chunks fly onto the road. Wires blasted away from the pole.
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[Deleted member 46308]

Mother nature is a powerful source.

 

[kamkar]

Woooooo COOL

Its stuff like that i am hoping for when we chase weather.

 

[Module 79L]

That doesn't seem to be footage from a dashcam (too much shaking), so the video's author had to be the most lucky person on Earth to be casually filming with a cellphone while driving when they caught that. Somehow something doesn't add up.