Updates to: lightning http://igor.chudov.com/lightning/ The blasts we heard last night were tremendous, ear shattering. Yet my 2 yo son slept through all that! (around 3 am) Thankfully, both of my computers were protected by UPSes. The tree destroyed was a huge 200 year old oak. Pieces of that oak were strewn many yards away. en-us Copyright Protected 2009-09-08T16:42+00:00 webmaster@algebra.com webmaster@algebra.com 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 12 hourly Oak tree exploded from lightning strike http://igor.chudov.com/lightning/. The blasts we heard last night were tremendous, ear shattering. Yet my 2 yo son slept through all that! (around 3 am) Thankfully, both of my computers were protected by UPSes. The tree destroyed was a huge 200 year old oak. Pieces of that oak were strewn many yards away.