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You light up my life

Southwest Idaho residents enjoyed an unrivaled natural light show on Aug. 5  – the second of a four-day midsummer storm that brought countless lightning strikes, blustery winds and uncharacteristic rainfall.
 
ITD’s Cecil Dallman, Idaho City maintenance foreman, captured the spectacle in the sky from a distance, showing the intensity of the storm over Boise. He photographed the strikes from Federal Way and Idaho 21.
 
The National Weather Service reported more than 500 lightning strikes on Wednesday; other observers put the count at more than 1,600 over the course of a couple of hours. Despite the number of lightning strikes, the region escaped with no major wildfires.

Published 8-15-09