Dover Priory Hit

• Jan Higgins

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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  27 March 2014     20:07262940
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  Travel chaos if you use the trains.
  
  http://www.dover-express.co.uk/Lightning-strike-causes-Dover-Priory-Rail-chaos/story-20873872-detail/story.html
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• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 62,352
  27 March 2014     20:17262941
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  had a power cut earlier for not much more than a minute followed by a thunderbolt of biblical proportions.
• Guest 664

  • Registered: 23 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 1,039
  27 March 2014     23:02262949
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  A bolt which must have missed me by about 200 metres as I was very near the station at the time. An anguished wait in the middle of the York Street traffic island for the procession of traffic to pass ensued as I rushed for cover with scenes from the Omen going through my mind.
• Brian Dixon

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 23 Sep 2008
  • Posts: 23,940
  28 March 2014     06:05262958
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  an epic clap of thunder followed by a short power cut,and a shower of wet snow at aycliffe.
• Jan Higgins

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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  28 March 2014     07:13262959
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  ate27/03/2014
  Time19:10
  Stop Time21:15
  TitleLightening strikes Folkestone and Dover
  LocationFolkestone and Dover
  AttendanceVarious
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  DetailsFirefighters have been called to a number of incidents following a lightening storm in the Folkestone and Dover area tonight. Crews have been fighting a fire in an electrical substation at the Dollands Moore Freight Depot in Folkestone. They were also in attendance to deal with a second incident in an isolation control building in Sandling Road Folkestone.
  
  A house in Eaton Road, Dover was struck by lightening and crews were called following reports of the roof and chimney stack smoking.
  
  Crews also assisted when properties in Eversley Road, Seabrook, were struck by lightening. Though there were no signs of fire, the wiring in both properties were affected. Crews checked the houses and used a 135 foot ladder to make the windows and roof safe.
  
  http://www.kent.fire-uk.org/release_15/incident_list.aspx?Id=1390
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• Guest 715

  • Registered: 9 Jun 2011
  • Posts: 2,438
  28 March 2014     07:30262960
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  Never heard a thing in Deal!
  Audere est facere.
• Guest 767

  • Registered: 30 Aug 2012
  • Posts: 458
  28 March 2014     11:55262988
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  The thunderbolt or whatever it was blew my set top digibox! Big bang and flash and there it was gone, everything else in the house was ok but the box, and all that was recorded on it is now u/s.
  Phil Wyborn - Brown at www.wybornphotography.co.uk
• Guest 698

  • Registered: 28 May 2010
  • Posts: 8,664
  28 March 2014     12:10262992
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  All our electronic stuff is protected by a combined surge protector and 1 kW UPS which not only keeps voltage and Hz constant but also keeps the idiot lantern, broadband modem, telephone, hi-fi, DVD player, Freeview/Freesat boxes and a LED standard lamp going for about an hour and a half if we get a power cut, which we occasionally do in Eythorne. Cost me £95, worth its weight in gold. Thoroughly recommended.
  I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson