Severe lightning storm causes power outages in South Carolina


Audio|Source: NC/SC Piedmont Area KC4IRA repeater
03:4
Transcript:
Boy, we got a terrible light just storm over here four miles west of Clover, South Carolina. KU4OQH. I know somebody got to be listening. This is KK4, BIU. big old lightning storm sitting over my head. Well, you've got a little popcorn with you, but you are very readable. I'm up here just north of Charlotte, North Carolina, just off of I-77 here to exit 18. And I see that storm off to the south of us, and I just wondering where that bugger was. I'm on my handy talkie. I had that plug on my other stuff. This is a real powerful electric storm down here. About four miles west, Culver, South Carolina. I'm not here at 161, Highway 161, and Whitworth Road. Roger that. When I was coming down 85 from Greensboro, I'm a truck driver, and I'm here at... at one of our terminals here. And I've been watching it since, where did I start seeing that bugger? I think it was, but I think I started seeing it there at Salisbury and I started seeing it better there in Canapolis. So yeah, it's a mighty tall one and I've seen a lot of beautiful lightning flashes come out of it. Gun knocked off the power two or three times. I got a lot of search protectors on my house and it doesn't click them off two or three times with these big old boats the lightning coming down. Roger that with the lightning protector. That's great. Search protectors definitely help out a whole lot, no doubt about it. And do you... Do you know where that storm is heading and is going south or southeast? Well, based on what I've been hearing and looking at, we got two of them here. One is to the south-east of me, and it sounds like the other one may be to the northeast of me, because we had one been about two minutes ago and moved around, and then this other one popped up with the same type of lightning in it.
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Location mentioned:
SC-161 & Whitworth Rd, South Carolina 29710
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