Grand Isle student captures lightning strike on church steeple (video)

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http://bangordailynews.com/2015/05/28/news/aroostook/grand-isle-student-captures-lightning-strike-on-church-steeple/

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By Julia Bayly, BDN Staff
Posted May 28, 2015, at 9:01 a.m.
Last modified May 28, 2015, at 8:19 p.m.

GRAND ISLE, Maine — For Carl Bouley, lightning apparently does strike twice.

On Wednesday evening, the 16-year-old Madawaska High School junior was in the right place at the right time to capture on video lightning striking a Grand Isle church steeple.

“In 2007, on my birthday, it was hit by lightning, too,” Bouley said Thursday morning. “When I saw the conditions with the atmosphere were the same yesterday, I figured, ‘Why not try to record it [and] if it happens, it happens.’”

It most certainly did happen.



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CORRECTION:

An earlier version of the story indicated Dave Guthro said the churches do not have lightning rods. He actually did state that they do.

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