Re: Holy Crap!

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Original poster: Russell L Thornton <Russell.L.Thornton@xxxxxxxx>


Hi all,
I am reading some of the descriptions of ball lightning here and 
getting a little confused as to what I understood it to be.
My Dad has told me of his witnessing a ball of lightning hitting the 
ground, on the farm he grew up on in N. Dakota, and rolling
into the barn and catching stuff on fire.  He is not one I associate 
with making up stories but I have always kind of classed this
one up there with sitting on top of telephone poles after the snow 
and walking up hill to school both ways.  Having said that,
I travel I-95 twice a day here in central Florida, known for liquid 
sunshine and lots and lots of lightning. One day traveling home
I witness a strike to a power pole over a mile ahead of me and 
a  huge (it must have been huge from the distance) sphere of
light remained on the cable and traveled across the cable at a 
relatively slow rate.  It lasted so long that, if I had a camcorder
I would have had plenty of time to reach down, turn it on, aim and 
still capture several seconds of it.
Now, here is my question:  Was what I saw ball lightning?

Russ
Monitoring lightning at the Cape