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The New York City blackout of 1977 was an electricity blackout that affected most of New York City on July 13–14, 1977. [3] [4] The only unaffected neighborhoods in the city were in southern Queens (including neighborhoods of the Rockaways), which were part of the Long Island Lighting Company system, as well as the Pratt Institute campus in Brooklyn, and a few other large apartment and ...
For instance, lightning strikes the Empire State Building in New York City on average 23 times per year. [ 166 ] [ 167 ] [ 168 ] In French and Italian, the expression for "Love at first sight" is coup de foudre and colpo di fulmine , respectively, which literally translated means "lightning strike".
A series of lightning strikes spidered across the New York City skyline the evening of Saturday, April 1, a few of which stretched from the World Trade Center into the clouds above in a dazzling ...
When a series of lightning strikes took down power across New York City on the night of July 13, 1977, streetlights, neon signs, and the bright lights of houses and skyscrapers went dark.
A lightning strike or lightning bolt is a lightning event in which an electric discharge takes place between the atmosphere and the ground. Most originate in a cumulonimbus cloud and terminate on the ground, called cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning.
A strong thunderstorm rolled through New York City around 8 p.m. ET, By Dan Mennella A fireworks display on July 2 may be a bit premature for some, but Mother Nature apparently couldn't wait to ...
Sympathetic lightning is the tendency of lightning to be loosely coordinated across long distances. Discharges can appear in clusters when viewed from space. [22] [23] [24] [clarification needed] Upward lightning or ground-to-cloud lightning is a lightning flash which originates from the top of a grounded object and propagates upward from this ...
On Tuesday, thunderstorms rolling through the New York City area struck and seriously injured three men.