Sentences with phrase «by lightning strikes»

But add up and those claims and insurance companies paid out almost US$ 1.1 - billion in claims due to damage caused by lightning strikes.

Western forest fires were usually started by lightning strikes up in the mountains.

What if it's badly damaged by a lightning strike?

Slightly in front of them lies a sad - looking tree that appears to have been torn in half by a lightning strike.

It is not impossible that your prized garden could be ruined by a lightning strike during a winter storm, but it's not terribly likely, either.

The short answer is yes, your home insurance likely covers damage caused by lightning strikes.

Started by a lightning strike, it burned some 7000 hectares.

Slightly in front of them lies a sad - looking tree that appears to have been torn in half by a lightning strike.

What if it's badly damaged by a lightning strike?

It is logical to suppose that bushfires caused by lightning strikes on ridges should be less common when the ridges involved are «protected» by tall wind turbine «lightning rods».

The technique revealed a distinct signature of thunder generated by the lightning strike.

The presence of shocked quartz crystals in rocks from both regions have been cited as evidence of impacts, although the new findings suggest that the rocks could have just as easily been made by lightning strikes.

The blaze was triggered by a lightning strike on Friday (June 28).

Other surface fires occur where coal seams that sit close to the earth's crust are ignited by lightning strikes, forest fires, or brushfires.

Then Miller and Urey applied an electric current to simulate the energy unleashed by lightning strikes.

With help from his bat formed by a lightning strike, he relives the glory he should have had in youth - as a pitcher - before a woman shot him.

After she dies in a car accident and he's deafened by a lightning strike, he runs away from his home in Minnesota.

By analogy, the fact that forest fires have long been caused naturally by lightning strikes does not mean that fires can not also be caused by a careless camper.

Demonstrated troubleshooting skills, after hours call in for network outage, evaluated LAN network HP Procurve 5901 switch, module 5 completely dead shorted out by lightning strike nearby, replaced, ran diagnostic for internet speed to full operations

In Boulder, the Flagstaff Fire is the top concern, which grew rapidly after being started by a lightning strike on Tuesday.

One theory is that the persistent glow is produced by dusty plasma, generated by lightning striking the ground, melting it locally and ejecting fine nano - particles of sand into the atmosphere.

Yosemite has adopted an aggressive plan of prescribed burns while allowing backcountry fires caused by lightning strikes to burn unimpeded as long as they don't threaten park facilities.

At issue is the 400 - kilowatt turbine adjacent to the city's sewage treatment plant severely damaged by a lightning strike in February 2017.

Because in the Peskova ruling of May 2017 the European Court of Justice (ECJ) decided that a bird strike was an «extraordinary event» under EU flight compensation regulation 261 - with the result that airlines didn't have to pay compensation, just as they don't for delays caused by lightning strikes or severe weather events.

A Northern California wildfire started by a lightning strike a month ago has burned more than 108,000 acres in the drought - stricken state, officials said on Friday.

A Kyoto University - based team has unraveled the mystery of gamma - ray emission cascades caused by lightning strikes.

BERKELEY Calif. (Reuters)- A Northern California wildfire started by a lightning strike a month ago has burned more than 108,000 acres in the drought - stricken state, officials said on September 12.

When he observes that natural fires (caused by lightning strikes) are often beneficial, even necessary, to the survival of the forest's ecosystem, readers will realize that the truths he uncovers on the mountain may have meaning in their own lives as well.

Moreover, prior to the intervention of subsidised and chaotic wind power, South Australians also enjoyed power delivered, almost without fail, save localised blackouts caused by lightning strikes and fallen lines.

This is speculation, but I would think that tall wind turbine lightning conductors that safely conduct electricity to the ground reduce the number of fires started by lightning strikes.

This can often be caused by lightning strikes, power outages, or malfunctions in the grid the power company is responsible for.

Awoke this morning to news that a car dump in the North was on fire, caused by a lightning strike, and they were about to commence water bombing because it was that big... chaos in Craigieburn (ironic, no?).