I'm in the city centre, we got hit by four different direct bolts as it came right on top of us. One bolt literally scorched the cobbles at the top of our street. A tree was damaged but thankfully no loss of life as far as I knew, until the day after when a train derailed and crashed, killing four due to the huge deluge of rain causing landslides. We didn't have a direct hit to our building but others did. They lost electricity. I turned off and unplugged everything, was lit by candles and when those bolts hit? It was like having a floodlight shining straight through your window, our building shook and you couldn't hear the thunder as the lightening was so CCCCRRRCK loud. After? The streets on both sides of our building were literally rivers from the deluge of water. Car or Kayak? I've never experienced that before and others who have lived here ages haven't either! There were repair teams all up and down Cowgate the day after. We were just thankful we didn't lose our electric! 😉 Kinda getting fed up of 2020 though now! 😔
I hope you have no damage and everything is safe. Your video inspired me to dig out Weather Report's "Heavy Weather"(R.I.P. Joe, R.I.P. Jacko). No DAW, 'handplayed' ... those were the times ...
Then you should check Medellin in Colombia (10-20 deaths per year due to lighting impacts), Miami or check the Catatumbo's electric phenomenon to see overwhelming electric activity...
I don't doubt it. However, context, as ever, is king. For us in Edinburgh, Scotland UK, this was an amazing storm. And, yes: people DID die. People's property WAS damaged. Different country: different scale.
@@JonnyLipshamStudios By the way I live in Edinburgh as well, and knowing the fact electric activity is very rare here it was very strong (under this region's context) - I did not know people died yesterday because of the storm!
