Lightning strike

Cyr Gulch fire burning west of Missoula, now at 20 acres..standoff guy gets 5 years in prison...lightning ruptures gas line at Linda Vista home..cooler and windy weather..

Just before 3 a.m. on Wednesday, the McNellis family on Jake Court in the Upper Miller Creek area were awakened by an enormous thunderclap, and discovered that lightning had caused a tree to burst into flames.

If you have better odds of getting struck by lightning than winning the lottery, storm-chaser Scott Sheppard should really get himself a lottery ticket. While following a storm in South Dakota,

Lest you think that the work in the oil patch in North Dakota is all money and long hours of hard work think again. It can be very dangerous. Our good friend Crustyacean (president of the  Bitterroot Land Crab Motor Ass’n) has been working over in the Bakken for about a year now and sent us  a couple of very interesting photos...

A weather system could arrive in sometime Saturday with some fairly intense thunderstorms with lightning.

Mike Akers was visiting his parents in Queens, NY, when a freak storm swept through the area on Monday night, bringing thunder, lightning and baseball-sized hail. In this amateur video, which aired on ‘Today,’ Akers filmed from the relative safety of his parents’ porch when, suddenly, lightning struck in the front yard and smashed a tree to pieces.