Sentences with phrase «half by a lightning strike»

The person wrote about the burning bush had no possible clue that it could have been caused by a lightning strike.

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.

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).

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

In 1995, he collaborated with the College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum in Price, Utah, to make replicas of their entire collection of dinosaur track casts, and exhibited these in New York and throughout Europe; in 1997 he collaborated with the International Center for Lightning Research and Testing in Starke, Florida, to trigger lightning with rockets, and worked with a local souvenir manufacturer to create over 10,000 replicas of a fulgurite created by the lightning strike; in 2000 he collaborated with the Pioneers Museum in the desert community of Imperial Valley, California, to reproduce souvenir copies and large models of their local mountain, Mount Signal, and the unique «Sand Spike» sand concretions found at its base; and in 2003, he created 120 topographical models of the states of Missouri and Kansas, which he donated and delivered himself to 120 small historical society museums in both states.

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».

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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?).

Not exact matches

A. Getting published is like trying to be struck by lightning.

Historically, people would navigate by it because it was so dependable, where these lightning strikes would be.

Someone once told me the probability of an entrepreneur getting venture capital is the same as getting struck by lightning while standing at the bottom of a swimming pool on a sunny day.

The less good news is that when lightning struck during the global financial storm it illuminated a financial landscape that raised troubling questions about our ability to weather the next storm that is quickly emerging driven by demographics.

When Amazon bought Whole Foods last summer, panic struck competing U.S grocers, who foresaw the retail behemoth delivering the fresh organic goods beloved by affluent shoppers at lightning speed.

The odds are greater that you will be struck by lightning than a high - quality muni will default on a payment.

What the hell did you people think would happen if it were struck by lightning??

I'm Buddhist... but if Pat Robertson gets struck by lightning I may seriously have to reconsider the whole thing...

Sister Jospine warned Father Tim that he could be struck down by lightning if he continued to take God's name in vain.

Susie, by you saying that we should all be struck by lightning doesn't make you look better than any of us, believers or non believers.

George Carlin begged god on stage to strike him down by lightning — it never happened.

All of you should be struck by lightning for acting like children.

It was struck by lightning.

The theory developed that perhaps lightning struck a pond of water causing several molecules to combine in a random way which by chance resulted in a living cell.

But suppose during this storm someone is struck by lightning and killed.

«Since coming to this conclusion,» he added, «I have twice been struck by lightning and once forced to engage in a long conversation with a theatrical agent.»

Like this tree struck by lightning, forever damaging its life, I can now see that much of what I have believed has only deepened my own pre-existent self - deprecation.

I literally rocked back on my heels, and felt like I had been struck by lightning!

In 2005, my house was struck by lightning in August.

Had the task been a different one, had the Lord commanded Abraham to bring Isaac out to Mount Moriah and then would Himself have Isaac struck by lightning and in this way receive him as a sacrifice, then, taking his words in a plain sense, Abraham might have been right in speaking enigmatically as he did, for he could not himself know what would occur.

And you believe you came from rocks, a pile of trash that was struck by lightning, a organic soup, or apes, which one is it?

Maybe we did start as a plasma puddle being struck by lightning, but no scientists support Darwin's complete theory.

All religions (Christianity, Islam, Secular Humanism, Evolution, etc.) are all based on faith in things that can not be proven by the scientific method (e.g., God created the universe / where did God come from, we are all the end result of a lightning strike in an ancient mud puddle / where did energy and mass come from, etc..)