Very cool!
I wonder would this have been comforting or disconcerting to immigrants arriving at Ellis Island?
As mentioned in the picture comments, the lightning appears to actually strike behind the statue but no matter, it’s still an awesome shot.
It almost looks like she’s wielding the lightning as a weapon.
Bitch has a temper.
Apparently she gets hit around 600 times a year.
A moment’s thought may cause you t o reconsider the phrasing of that second sentence. You never know when she’s listening.
Just popping to remind everyone that traditionally, being struck by lightning was taken as a sign of God’s disfavor.
By the power of Greyskull …
Lovely lady is miffed, and rightfully so.
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That was before they knew that lightning goes upward. She’s throwing it!
She’s copper, isn’t she? Wonder how she’s grounded, what kind of power courses through her, if there are burn marks or other signs of increased heat, etc…
Cool.
sings
Y-o-o-u-u light up my L-I-I-F-F-E-E!
I was visiting my sister in Jersey City, in her 18th floor apartment the night of that storm. You can see the Statue from her apartment if you stand with your face pressed against the window, but i was not doing that.
Still, the storm was pretty awe inspiring. The lightning continued for quite a while.
I love that the photographer captured this.
Damn: I was planning to start this thread myself. I even had a neat title: “She snatched lightning from the sky and the sceptre from tyrants” (an epigram originally written for Benjamin Franklin). But yeah a seriously cool photo and I hope the photographer makes a boatload of money from it.
600 times a year? Is it possible to tap that power?
Yes, but only for evil.
I blame Obama.
Only to reanimate the undead.
But more seriously, averaged over time, its not that much energy. Wikipedia guesstimates a single strike can keep a lightbulb lit for a few hours.
Not to mention that the strikes would come so randomly that the energy would probably have to be stored…expensively and inefficently.