Lightning Strikes Old Oak

[Anonymous-0]

Lightning struck and burnt this old oak tree recently in NW MO.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Thats pretty cool looking, never seen anything like it before.

 

[Davis In SC]

Wow !! Did tree burn completely up ? A more detailed story would be interesting.

Years ago, back on the farm, we had a poplar tree that got hit by lightning. It peeled a strip of bark, as wide as your hand, 25-30 feet long, and just laid it out on the ground, in a long strip. Tree was dead the next summer.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Wow. Lightning does some crazy stuff. When it hits hardwoods it seems to travel under the bark. We had a very large white pine behind the house a good ways get hit and it must have traveled down the center. A section 10-12 feet long near the bottom was blown apart in pie shaped sections (like orange sections) . The pieces were scattered about the yard in about a 50' diameter. The top part of the tree dropped onto the ragged stump and toppled. Made a big mess. The dog was a mess for a while too.

 

[Jimmy King]

I remember when I was very young Granddad had the only tractor on the farm. A Cedar tree at the side of his house was struck and caught on fire. Dad had the tractor at our house, he went up there and they used ropes to pull limbs off the tree. Non of us had running water then, and of course that was before chain saws.

 

[DarwinCam]

Nice picture.

When I was a kid, as we were looking out the living room window during a thunder storm, a large soft maple got struck. A mostly dead branch shot out/off of the tree into the cattle yard probably 20 yards or so...when it hit the ground that baby was on fire. It laid there and completely burnt up...that was cool, at least through the eyes of a young'n.

 

[Anonymous-0]

when i was in high school we had a bad thunder and wind strom in the summer. dad went out and moved car much to mom's objection. when he got back in house tree went down where car had been.
i think it was the same night lighting struck but didn't ground. it was a strange thing to see ball of lighting bouncing around in yard across road and finally to railroad tracks about 1/8 mile away. there it made a blinding flash and a loud BOOM!