Lightning Strike

Whoa, tonight's wild thunderstorm has hit Staten Island in a serious way: There's an island-wide power outage right now, not to mention "starting fires, flooding streets, causing car crashes downing tree branches," according to SILive. Also, we're hearing that a police officer was struck by lightning. Be careful out there!

There will be thunderstorms tomorrow as well.

Photograph of lightning in the sky from barek176 on Flickr

Here's another good shot of a strike-- anyone else have one? And while most of you suckers were running for cover, Adam Kuban used the thunderstorm as an opportunity to avoid the line at Shake Shack! Clever.

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By Jen Chung in News on June 1, 2006 10:15 PM

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Interlard

I doubt the lightning caused car crashes. 2 NYC drivers on a 100 sq. mile salt flat would hit each other.

Tim Y

Yup. Dongan hills here. No power outage. As a matter of fact, between 8:30-10:15, we were watching the 2006 Scripp Spelling Bee on channel 7. Geektacular!

SATAN

The Shake Shack is so overrated and gay - I wish people would get over it.

andy

We lost power between 8:30pm-10:15pm in Travis, the whole neighborhood was out.

Having said that, NY1 is quoting ConEd as saying that a total of 6,000 customers lost power on SI - so claims of an island-wide outage do seem to be a major exaggeration.