June 17, 2007
2030z
UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite GOES East (click title above for 12 hour loop)
June 17, 2007
2030z
UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite of north and west hemisphere
Lightning strike kills one, injures six (click here - Canada)
Group knocked flat by 'stray voltage'
CanWest News Service; Edmonton Journal
Published: Sunday, June 17, 2007
PIGEON LAKE - One man was killed and six others were seriously injured by a lightning strike as they tried to take shelter from a storm on Pigeon Lake Saturday afternoon.
Around 1 p.m., a thunderstorm hit the western side of the 22-kilometre long lake and sent boaters and fishermen fleeing for cover. One group was on the water, but quickly docked at the boat launch and took cover under the nearby treeline.
Fisherman Gordie Armstrong was in his own boat 20 to 30 yards from the group. It was pouring rain, but there was little lightning, he said.
Lightning Strike Sparks Blaze at Assisted Living Apartments (click here)
A lightning strike is the apparent cause of a fire at Hoover Place, an assited living apartment complex in Dayton.
Dayton fire crews responded to 5407 Hoover Avenue, evacuating the building, around 4 Sunday afternoon.
Several engines and ladder trucks were called to the scene.
One firefighter was injured, with a minor neck burn.
Right now, no word on the exact number of people affected by the blaze, but some residents are being taken back inside other parts of the complex.
Stay with 2News for more on this breaking news and the threat of more severe weather, Sunday at 11.
What is that over Florida?
Rain Drenches Area, Floods Streets, Not Okeechobee - video (click on)
(CBS4) SOUTH MIAMI-DADE Two days of heavy rain has left some South Miami-Dade neighborhoods soggy after street flooding, and the weekend forecast does not offer much hope for a drier Fathers' Day.A tropical weather system is continuing to threaten rain throughout the weekend, and while forecasters at the National Hurricane Center don't believe it will develop into a named storm, it still carries plenty of water.Despite the drought conditions which have plagued Florida, the rain has been a problem for some neighborhoods.In the South Miami-Dade neighborhood of Mary Ann Estates, a drainage improvement program has instead become a drainage problem. Newly installed drains apparently did not help channel more than 2 inches of rain from the neighborhood, leaving water well over a foot deep in places....
