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WhiteWolf

08/02/2017 02:28PM

You will have to have a facebook account I believe. I tried looking for the You-tube version with no avail.

unreal strike.

The two loudest sounds known to man: a gun that goes bang when it is supposed to go click and a gun that goes click when it is supposed to go bang.

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Savage Voyageur

08/02/2017 02:59PM

Cool how it travels along the ground then erupted in the water.
Edit per twobygreencanoe, looks like it's not a lighting strike but det cord. Maybe they were blowing up a beaver dam started in the river.

"So many lakes, so little time." WWJD

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Soledad

08/02/2017 03:00PM

You think that was lightning? hmm, what does Det Cord look like when it is set off? Something was destroyed in the river to make those waves.

Camera perfect angle to record...

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mirth

08/02/2017 03:15PM

Sure kicked up some stuff from the bottom... At the end there's log shaped things floating where there wasn't before.

Camera angle looks to be maybe what a security camera would be at.

When a man is part of his canoe, he is part of all that canoes have ever known. - Sigurd F. Olson, "The Singing Wilderness"

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Soledad

08/02/2017 03:21PM

The more I watch the less I think it is lightning. The explosion is not delayed because of distance, and it doesn't make a sound until the water explodes. The sound follows the explosion as it happens. So that means no thunder from the lightning, and they are like peas in a pod :)

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shock

08/02/2017 03:26PM

that is so cool and crazy at the same time WOW !

keep your line wet, good things will happen

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WhiteWolf

08/02/2017 03:39PM

quote Soledad: "The more I watch the less I think it is lightning. The explosion is not delayed because of distance, and it doesn't make a sound until the water explodes. The sound follows the explosion as it happens. So that means no thunder from the lightning, and they are like peas in a pod :)"

That may be the case. But lightning does some unreal things at times when it encounters different "phases" of moisture-- whether it's water vapor, water itself or a combo. Also think about ground contacts being more conductive. We all know how light bends in a rainbow by the refraction of light-- imagine that times 10. IMO this is pre season ball lighting formation.

The two loudest sounds known to man: a gun that goes bang when it is supposed to go click and a gun that goes click when it is supposed to go bang.

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TwoByGreenCanoe

08/02/2017 03:46PM

Definitely Det Cord. Watch this video and it looks the same. 500 ft of Det Cord

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maxxbhp

08/02/2017 04:51PM

That smoke is exactly the same color as the smoke dynamite makes.

"...And the days I keep my gratitude higher than my expectations, .......well, I have really good days". Ray Wiley Hubbard

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thebotanyguy

08/02/2017 05:36PM

Cool video, but not lightning. See this link for the explanation how a Finnish engineering company performed a controlled underwater explosion in 2012:

Snopes.com link

"Said one of these men, long past seventy years of age: 'I could carry, paddle, walk and sing with any man I ever saw. I have been twenty-four years a canoe man, and forty-one years in service; no portage was ever too long for me. Fifty songs could I sing. I have saved the lives of ten voyageurs. Have had twelve wives and six running dogs. I spent all my money in pleasure. Were I young again, I should spend my life the same way over. There is no life so happy as a voyageur's life!'"

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shock

08/02/2017 06:16PM

quote thebotanyguy: "Cool video, but not lightning. See this link for the explanation how a Finnish engineering company performed a controlled underwater explosion in 2012:

Snopes.com link "

interesting , i paused and played it , ya dont really see a lightning stirke , another reason to not trust the internet.

keep your line wet, good things will happen

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drnatus

08/02/2017 07:41PM

Is nothing real anymore!!!!?????!!!!?????!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

I was thinking it was a really cool strike.

Thanks for posting anyway as I hang my head in sadness. (kidding)

Never criticize someone until you walk a mile in their shoes....by then you'll be a mile away and they will be shoeless!

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QueticoMike