My friends house was destroyed by lightning. ( lotsa pics inside)
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Looks nice doesn't it?
My neighbors home was hit by lightning this morning. Two lightning bolts struck it around 6am this morning. Sad thing is someone just bought the house in an auction last weekend and they have yet to insure it. So that means their brand new home is now completely destroyed with water and fire damage. My theory is that the lightning struck the satellite dish on top of the house.
Melted Dish:
[img]http://img861.imageshack.us/img861/4827/img0266n.jpg[/img]
So I don't know exactly if that was the cause but the evidence leads to it. Since where the dish was where the initial burnt zone is where it used to be:
[img]http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/9933/img0267aq.jpg[/img]
A closer shot
[img]http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/3497/img0270f.jpg[/img]
From the inside
[img]http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/4578/img0291wk.jpg[/img]
Different angle
[img]http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/8029/img0284st.jpg[/img]
I have other shots of inside of the house, which is littered with debris from the attic. Thumbs:
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I might upload a file with all the raw images at original file size and resolution if there's enough interest in the thread.
Holy shit.
Holy mother of god on a pole. Thats just CRAZY!
Looks like you wont be getting new neighbors now! :buddy:
Must have been a shock to the new owner.
Thats unlucky
That is shocking terrible.
Hope they had insurance (Ouch! Missed that)
Now this thread deserves Zing ratings!
quite shocking really
At least the new owner wasn't in the building when it happened
They're lucky it didn't actually burn the house down and only seems to have destroyed the roof/attic.
A damned shame but perfectly fixable (Expensively)
And they'd sold it right? So it wasn't full of everything they owned or the new owner owned?
So many incoming Zing ratings
I feel really bad for him, that house was nice! At least he has lightning insurance!
Puns aside, that is fucking terrible for the folks that owned it. :saddowns:
Sorry, but i burst out laughing when I saw the zing rating beside this thread
That sucks though :frown:
Original owners cursed the house.
However that really does shock balls for your friend.
My Uncle's house was destroyed by lightning. They were like "want us to put you up in a hotel or something until we get it rebuilt? And he was all, "Nah, I'll just move to Japan."
Now he's irradiated.
What a shocking turn of events.
[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;28985438]My Uncle's house was destroyed by lightning. They were like "want us to put you up in a hotel or something until we get it rebuilt? And he was all, "Nah, I'll just move to Japan."
Now he's irradiated.[/QUOTE]
No.
What the... man that freaking sucks!
You live in Tennessee? We just had awesome storms. The Tornado Sirens went off and everything.
Seriously I didn't think a lightning bolt could do so much damage
[editline]4th April 2011[/editline]
also what's with the optimistic ratings?
Wow, we rated zing. We're cruel bastards.
[QUOTE=CanadianBill;28985800]Wow, we rated zing. We're cruel bastards.[/QUOTE]
well, its not as bad as rating a thread about a family drowning funny
-snip-
Sorry. Missed the part about them not being insured. Hope I didn't come off sounding like an asshole.
Nothing some duct tape cant fix
That's fucking crazy.
Don't buy Dishes people
[QUOTE=TheDeadHo;28985223]At least the new owner wasn't in the building when it happened[/QUOTE]
If the new owner was in it he could have gone up and put out the fire immediately.
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Nah putting out fires is dumb vote dumb for letting fires burn.
[QUOTE=The_J_Hat;28986111]That sucks. Hopefully their insurance company will pay for the damages.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=AutoTurret;28985115]My neighbors home was hit by lightning this morning. Two lightning bolts struck it around 6am this morning. Sad thing is someone just bought the house in an auction last weekend and they have [b]yet to insure it.[/b][/QUOTE]
:ohdear:
Spoiled family, excessive and vain.
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