{Bright Hammer}[15th September 1973]

[Redbook2:19][19730915:1958]{Bright Hammer}[15th September 1973]

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            They say that lightning never strikes twice.  From my room I can see an earth-shaker of a thunderstorm with initial squalls, periodic hail or almost continuous rain.  The sheet lightning is all around – we seem to be near the centre of electrical activity, so that every few seconds the fields stand out stark for a flickering second or two.  But the fork lightning seems to strike mostly at some spot a few miles dead South – again and again.  The air seems so charged there that (unless it is some after-image) some strikes seem to hang in the air before disintegrating.  And at one time the lightning seemed to strike several times in quick succession – hardly fading – in that same place.

            Of course we all know it goes up not down – polecat Science – and this is an iron-bearing area; but it is almost as if the proverbial mad scientist was testing his fiendish lightning device again and again from his secret laboratory in the Hills.

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