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Date: Wed Aug 20 2003 - 20:13:02 EDT
Lightning News From Weekend, Early Week
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TWELVE injured by lightning at fireworks show - Concord Monitor, NH
<http://www.cmonitor.com/stories/news/state2003/081803lightning_2003.shtml>
JAFFREY - A dozen people were injured when lightning struck a crowd at
a carnival, but all were out of the hospital by yesterday. ...
LIGHTNING STARTS WITHINGTON FIRE - KPVI-TV, ID
<http://www.kpvi.com/index.cfm?page=nbcheadlines.cfm&ID=14683>
The Withington Fire started by lightening Friday and has now burned more
than 10-thousand- and-five-hundred acres. Fire officials ...
LIGHTNING, drought cause weekend fires - Green River Star, WY
<http://www.greenriverstar.com/articles/2003/08/18/news/news1.txt>
The twin nemesis of lightning and drought continue to keep local firefighters
running from fire to fire for the past several days. ...
TEENAGER Survives Lightning Strike - NEWS4Colorado.com, CO
<http://news4colorado.com/crimeaccidentreport/local_story_230122158.html>
GEORGETOWN, Colo. (AP) A 15-year-old boy who may have been struck by lightning
was able to walk away. He was camping at Herman Lake ...
ANOTHER lightning death in Uinta mountains - Wyoming News, WY
<http://www.trib.com/AP/wire_detail.php?wire_num=142312>
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A Pennsylvania woman was struck by lightning and
killed in the Uinta mountains, police said, the third lightning death
in Utah in less ...
LIGHTNING strikes 2theadvocate.com - WBRZ, LA
<http://www.2theadvocate.com/stories/081803/new_strike001.shtml>
... Works. Employees were immediately evacuated from the building which
shook when the lightning struck during a thunderstorm, said Ling. ...
LIGHTNING causes outages in latest round of storms - Fayetteville Online,
Fayetteville NC
<http://www.fayettevillenc.com/story.php?Template=local&Story=5824173>
By Robert Boyer. Lightning, marble-sized hail, high winds and rain buffeted
parts of the Cape Fear region on Monday. The weather ...
LIGHTNING strike interrupts phone service - Valdosta Daily Times, GA
<http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/articles/2003/08/19/news/news05.txt>
By Staff Reports. ADEL -- An AllTel remote was struck by lightning Sunday,
leaving about 200 residents without residential phone service. ...
LIGHTNING takes out roof, tree; young man's quick thinking lauded -
Record-Journal, CT
<http://www.record-journal.com/articles/2003/08/19/news/news02.txt>
WALLINGFORD — One casualty of a thunder and lightning storm Sunday was
a large white pine tree in Lisa Sekete's back yard on Northfield Road
near Wharton ...
LIGHTNING claims eight lives in Bihar - Hindustan Times, India
<http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_342902,000900030002.htm>
Eight persons, including three children and a woman, were killed in separate
incidents of lightning in Bihar's Rohtas district on Monday. ...
HEAVY rains , lightning kill 11 in northern India . - Hi Pakistan, Pakistan
<http://www.hipakistan.com/en/detail.php?newsId=en36079&F_catID=&f_type=source>
LUCKNOW: Lightning and collapsing houses triggered by heavy rains killed
11 people in India's most populous state, a foreign news agency reported
on Tuesday. ...
LIGHTNING Strikes Man; Stops Skyway Express - WTEV, FL
<http://www.wtev.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=1C91A0DD-304A-486C-A697-C79D5C5E14AD>
A northside man was struck by lightning while he was mowing his yard Monday
afternoon. The 54-year-old was cutting his grass on ...
LIGHTNING saps power - Beatrice Daily Sun, NE
<http://www.beatricedailysun.com/articles/2003/08/19/news/news2.txt>
... the night," Feist said. "We had one major outage, when lightning hit
substation one at Third and Grant streets.". That hit put downtown ...
LIGHTNING Strike Closes School - WTOC, GA
<http://www.wtoctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1408946&nav=0qq5HYBQ>
A lightning bolt hit Beaufort High School on Lady's Island, knocking out
the power to the school and forcing officials to cancel classes. ...
LIGHTNING strikes twice at Beaufort High School - Carolina Morning News, SC
<http://www.lowcountrynow.com/stories/082003/LOClightning.shtml>
Two electrical transformers were struck by lightning Monday night, taking
out the school's power and forcing administrators to cancel Tuesday classes.
LIGHTNING triggers grass fire near Wall - Rapid City Journal, SD
<http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/08/20/news/local/news10.txt>
... Writer. WALL A lightning-sparked fire blackened about 500 acres of
US Forest Service grassland between Wall and Quinn on Monday night. ...
LIGHTNING kills 3 in Thakurgaon - The New Nation, Bangladesh
<http://nation.ittefaq.com/artman/publish/article_4184.shtml>
By Thakurgaon Correspondent. Three people were killed and three others
injured by lightning at different places of Thakurgaon district on 17
August. ...
LIGHTNING disrupts family outing - Greeley Tribune, CO
<http://www.greeleytrib.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030820/NEWS/30820003>
A bolt of lightning brought it to a quick halt, however. The family was
westbound on US 34, going about 65 mph in their new Ford ...
HOLIDAY horse killed by lightning strike - Norwich Evening News, UK
<http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/content/News/story.asp?datetime=20+Aug+2003+11%3A53&tbrand=ENOnline&tCategory=NEWS&category=News&brand=ENOnline&itemid=NOED20+Aug+2003+11%3A54%3A09%3A493>
A BOLT of lightning has killed a veteran horse which spent nearly two decades
pulling punters in a tourist carriage on Great Yarmouth's seafront. ...
LIGHTNING strikes twice, burns home - Hinesville Coastal Courier, GA
<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1389&dept_id=161954&newsid=10036553&PAG=461&rfi=9>
A Gum Branch mobile home was struck twice by lightning Saturday night,
and was destroyed by the resulting fire. The owner of the ...
WAVERLY man lives to tell the tale of lightning strike - Sayre Evening
Times, PA
<http://www.eveningtimes.com/articles/2003/08/20/news/news3.txt>
... enjoys the notoriety he has been receiving for the past few days, but
would rather it stemmed from something a lot less painful than being struck
by lightning ...
LIGHTNING Strike Damages House In Osceola - Local6.com, FL
<http://www.local6.com/news/2419825/detail.html>
A house in an Osceola County, Fla., neighborhood was substantially damaged
by a lightning strike Wednesday night, according to Local 6 News. ...
NASH County School Damaged By Lightning Strike May Close For Good -
WRAL.com, NC
<http://www.wral.com/news/2420191/detail.html>
Lightning sparked a fire at Cedar Grove Elementary School on Sunday, forcing
students and teachers to relocate to Swift Creek Elementary School until
repairs ...
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