Huge Lightning Strikes Jolt Gulkana & Gakona Junction
Massive Lightning Strikes Hit The Gulkana-to-Sailors Pit Area On Saturday, May 30th, Shaking Homes Lightning Strike (Wikimedia) ...

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Massive Lightning Strikes Hit The Gulkana-to-Sailors Pit Area On Saturday, May 30th, Shaking Homes
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Lightning Strike (Wikimedia) |
Cabins and houses shook, as up to more than 120,000 amps of electricity rumbled to the ground. (That's a lot of amps.) At least four strikes hit the area near Sailors Pit north of the junction.
A few more hit the region out by Lake Louise, according to Sunshine Meitzner, Dispatch Supervisor at the Department of Natural Resources in Tazlina. The Division of Forestry is monitoring the situation, but it's been extremely wet, which is a good thing, especially after last year's bad fire year, and the problem of bringing extra firefighters north during Covid-19.
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