Last Friday’s violent thunder and lightening storms hit a little too close to home at Vern and Beverly Devereux’s property off Rte. 16 in Barton. Mrs. Devereux was on the phone with her husband when she heard a bang so loud that it startled her causing her to scream into the phone! She looked out as lightening struck this tree just a few hundred feet from their glass-front porch.
Mrs. Devereux said she witnessed a big ball of lightening that then formed vertical bolts that traveled down and stripped the sides of the tree. Then, she said, there was a lot of sizzling. So, she kept a close eye out to be sure that the strike hadn’t caused any fire in the surrounding landscape.
Photos by Tracy Davis Pierce
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