Petersburg residents are buzzing about the intense rumble that swept the area late last Thursday night.
The sound —which to some folks seemed like an airplane flying just overhead, or felt like a tree fell into their home— was the roar of thunder resulting from lightning striking near Mitkof Island around 11 p.m. Nov. 7.
Grant Smith of the National Weather Service in Juneau told the Pilot that overnight satellite data detected four strikes of lightning near the Petersburg area around the time.
"The bolts looked like they were right over the channel," Smith recalled.
Lightning occurs when elect...
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