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Watch Triple Lightning Strike 3 of Chicago’s Tallest Buildings At Once

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Photographer Craig Shimala was filming a time-lapse of a derecho over Chicago on the night of June 30th when a triple lightning strike touched down on three of the city’s tallest buildings: Willis Tower, Trump Tower, and the John Hancock Building.

https://gizmodo.com/new-statistics-on-lightning-deaths-in-the-u-s-reveal-w-560760736

The whole time-lapse is worth a watch, but the triple strike can be seen at 0:36 and 0:46. Here’s the still from the 36-second mark:

“This time [the photograph] was a still from a time-lapse,” writes Shimala. (The still, from the 26-second mark, appears above.) He specifies “this time,” because he captured another triple-strike – on the same trio of buildings – four years ago:

vimeo.com/12816548

[cshimala via COLOSSAL]

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