photo of the day - whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Hammer of Zeus: A flash of lightning illuminates the sky over the 2,500-year-old Ancient Parthenon temple, at the Acropolis hill during a heavy rainfall in Athens early this morning
In a bizarre reversal of the norm, the skies over Greece were heavy today with the threat of more storms, and the temperatures dropping overnight to 21 degrees Celsius.
Meanwhile the usually overcast and cool skies over Britain have been startlingly clear, with temperates set to break heat records this week.
The Parthenon, completed in 432BC, was originally dedicated to the goddess Athena. Its main function was to shelter a statue of the goddess made out of gold and ivory.

In 1656, a lightning strike to a powder keg destroyed structures on the Acropolis - but fortunately spared the Parthenon.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1290289/Greece-lightning-Ancient-Parthenon-lit-storm-breaks-Athens.html?ito=feeds-newsxml#ixzz0sFOQaFMe

That has to be the most incredible photo capture of lightning I've ever seen WH. Something about it doesn't sit right with me though, it's almost as if it's manufactured as in playing with natural forces for some ritualistic purpose. I guess because of the location, I don't know but I get a strange feeling about it.

follow those feelings, lightning..... in the article it mentions the odd
weather - this storm in greece and unseasonably warmth in britain....
when will people realize that these rare, unnatural occurances are related
to human weather controls like haarp? so, i think you may be correct......

i have always wanted to capture lightning on film..but so far no go
that is a great shot

but L i agree with you the weather is not natural
everything is off

we have had such humidity and high temps and tons of rains with mini floods almost once a week
in different neighborhoods..
and something really strange to me..the bugs are not in the woods
our small community is taking down the old earth dam that was for the resevoir
and i had to hike thur the woods to get some pics the last two days..not a bug anywhere
but go out into the flower beds or the grass fiels..and they swarm you
now what the hell is that about...
ah clouding up here again..dang

Yep, I was reading as I was typing and decided to let my post stand as it was...

for you, lightning

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cfe_1277582908

Cool WH, Thank You! I was one of those wierd kids that at five years old would put on a bathing suit and run out in a lightning and thunder storm and dance around. I instinctively knew the ability of lighting to create life as well as destroy it and I respected it power but never feared it. It became an energizing force for me.

then you would LOVE the summer afternoons here, lightning.....
they call it monsoon season - lots of thunderheads and lightning,
so much so that we shut down computers.... the dogs run and hide
from thunder booms, but i love it, i go outside, too (but no bathing suit required, hee hee)

I probably would. Sounds wonderful, and btw my mom made me wear the bathing suit....

oh wow hippie that is a cool vid...
and L..i used to go out in the lightning and thunder too...got yelled at a lot
but no one would come out and get me..

i still hafta be outside for lightning..there is just soo much power and awe to see