Watch This Plane Get Hit By Lightning In Atlanta

A plane apparently waiting for a storm to clear
at the Atlanta airport was struck by lightning Tuesday.  

Planes in flight get hit by lightning all the time.

Aircraft are designed to take such hits with little or no damage, and passengers inside the planes are pretty much always safe, even if the lightning bolts scare the bejeezus out of them.

The strike here is a bit different.

In Atlanta, Georgia, Tuesday, there was a ground stop at busy Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport as a strong thunderstorm with lots of lightning swept through.

Jack Perkins was aboard one of the planes stacked up on the ground waiting out the bad weather, and he decided to film the long line of airliners waiting to take off.

He captured a dramatic lightning bolt smacking into one of those planes.

The Atlanta Journal Constitution had no word if there was anybody on the plane at the time of the strike.

There's no reports of any injuries among anyone aboard the plane, though I've seen a lot of jokes that the plane had to return to the gate for "bio cleaning" the soiled seats left by passengers who had the wits and other things scared out of them by the lightning.

Here's the video:

August In Colorado: Bring Out The Snowplows!

You don't want to think about shovels and snow plows in August, but they had to in a Denver suburb this week.

It didn't snow, exactly, but boy did it hail.   Makes me feel smug that the weather where I am sitting in Vermont is so picture perfect today. Not so in Colorado. (And watch on the news: There might be some big flash floods this weekend in the deserts of the American Southwest of all places)

Look at this "weather porn" report from a Denver news station on the hail: Wow!

Latest Weather Porn: Why They Call Them Flash Floods

Earlier this month a huge flash flood hit the Colorado town of Manitou Springs.

I already wrote about it once, but I have to share this other video that came out of the disaster, because it is so wild.

The Mantou Springs, Colorado flood earlier this month.  

It demonstrates why they call them flash floods. At the beginning of the video, the situation doesn't seem that bad. But in 10 or 15 seconds all hell is breaking loose.

The video also shows why they always keep saying not to drive your car into even what appears to be shallow flood waters.

In this clip nobody is driving any of the cars, they're all parked. But you can see how water that really isn't that deep can sweep vehicles away.

In any event, this "weather porn" video is a fascinating second look at one of the most dramatic flash floods in the nation this year, in a year in which there have been more floods than I can remember.

Here's the vid: