Last night lightning struck twice...
It seems that City Hall escaped the bolt of lightning that you see in the photo above. The Richardson Complex was not as fortunate. I don't have the heart to cover the later story. Unforntunately lightning can be as destructive as it can be beautiful. As a vast number of Buffalonians attended a myriad of events downtown last evening, one of those attendees, Brian Maher, stuck around for what turned out to be the best visual show of the night. Now I don't think that Brian is a regular storm chaser, but we are sure glad that he chased down this fantastic photo of city hall in Mother Nature's spotlight. While this is a beautiful photo our thoughts are with the Richardson Complex.
I dropped a friend off at the airport last night and was driving back downtown at 12:45 a.m. The lightning was amazing coming down the 33 back towards the city so I stopped by my house to pick up my camera and headed down to LaSalle Park. I spent about 15 minutes taking some pictures over the lake and getting soaked but nothing was impressing me so I moved to the other side of the park to see if I could get a good silhouette of the city. When I drove around the I saw a lightpost that had been directly hit and was had splintered at the top with debris scattered all over the road. This picture was taken at 1:15 a.m. -Brian (Shot 15 sec/ISO 50/F7.2)
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