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The Sky Fights Back against HPS! « on: May 14, 2008, 04:56:29 PM »
See this amazing video as the sky violently turns off a HPS street light!

Hint: Fast forward to near the end
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Re: The Sky Fights Back against HPS! « Reply #1 on: May 14, 2008, 07:10:59 PM »
 Shocked Man that one close call for the cameraman but unfortunately can't say the same for the fixture. Finally ol' Zeus is doing something about the HPS infectation. Grin



We had a storm here in NC last week and got a big flash in the backyard and loudest thunder I ever heard in a long time. Looked to be 1/4 of a sec between flash and thunder, which is about a football field lenght away. Very close.
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Re: The Sky Fights Back against HPS! « Reply #2 on: May 14, 2008, 07:54:33 PM »
Now no wonder why New Jersey has a lot of clear mercs :-D   

This video was filmed in Brick, New Jersey by the way!

Actually the lighting struck the transformer, you can see the building power went off, and the person who filmed it mentioned it in the comments on that video, but then again great video!
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Re: The Sky Fights Back against HPS! « Reply #3 on: December 15, 2008, 03:08:16 PM »
awesome!!!
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Re: The Sky Fights Back against HPS! « Reply #4 on: December 15, 2008, 05:29:47 PM »
I saw this video months ago... SCARY!  Shocked I love to film storms so it'll happen one day...
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Re: The Sky Fights Back against HPS! « Reply #5 on: December 25, 2009, 12:15:06 PM »
Lets pray it was a DuraStar!
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Re: The Sky Fights Back against HPS! « Reply #6 on: March 01, 2010, 04:45:09 AM »
"Holy shit!"...

I love that video!
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Re: The Sky Fights Back against HPS! « Reply #7 on: March 16, 2010, 08:21:26 PM »
Quote from: gailgrove on December 25, 2009, 12:15:06 PM
Lets pray it was a DuraStar!

Sorry won't be a Durastar.....as it's in Brick, NJ, and NJ doesn't have the durastars.....well I bet there's an icetron there now!
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Re: The Sky Fights Back against HPS! « Reply #8 on: August 27, 2010, 05:59:44 PM »
Wow! That was scary! Shocked
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