Lightning Strike at DHS

[SpaceMountain77]

Within the past hour, lightning struck this tree. Although somewhat hard to see, the orange glow is a small fire.

 

[wdwmagic]

View attachment 165262 Within the past hour, lightning struck this tree.

Looking at the radar there is a lot of lighting activity in the area this afternoon.

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

Well, it worked well on the ToT.....

 

[DisneyJayL]

Well, it worked well on the ToT.....

Wow, that was crazy!

 

[TheOrangeBird01]

Well, it worked well on the ToT.....

I would have loved to see that in person. It really fits the theme of the ride lol

 

[Minnie Mum]

Well, it worked well on the ToT.....

THAT was so cool! Given the super high incidence of thunder storms in the Orlando area, I'm going to go out on a limb and say they probably have lightning rods and a grounding system on all of their higher buildings.

 

[GhostHost1000]

I think someone is trying to tell them they need to fix that mess they call a park

 

[EOD K9]

That's prefect for ToT, if it could be done every hour or so that would be great.

That would be great, but unfortunately, we never know when or where lightning will strike.

 

[marni1971]

Seemed like a tornado was going to rip through the AmAd. Lightning every second.

 

[networkpro]

It's going to be like that most of this week. We didn't get out from under the doomcloud until Ocala.

 

[flyerjab]

Seemed like a tornado was going to rip through the AmAd. Lightning every second.

I was there the same time you were today. Wish I had known.

 

[Magenta Panther]

I think someone is trying to tell them they need to fix that mess they call a park

Walt is NOT happy.

 

[Goingdown13]

That's prefect for ToT, if it could be done every hour or so that would be great.

Except it brought the ride down for 3 days .........

But it would be awesome....

 

[docdebbi]

I know why your video ended with you getting out of there quick....I was standing in line for Fantasmic one night during a thunderstorm (yeah, I know, doesn't have the sense to come in out of the rain, but I kept hoping it would end soon), when it hit ToT. Let me tell you, no one needs to tell you what happened. The ground literally shook, the sound was horrific, and you just jump in the air, terrified for a microsecond.
The CMs came around and got everyone out of there ASAP, and made us go into Beauty and the Beast theater and wait for it to quiet down. They really didn't want people walking away with it still so active, but they couldn't make you go into the theater.

They kept telling us it was safer in there than on the streets because "it's a certified storm shelter". What? It's a metal box in which you sit on metal seats??!! Doubt they ground the whole thing, but we did as requested and the storm passed. But no fantasmic that night. Boo!

BTW- they told us that ToT is indeed the lightning rod for the studios, that each park has one on the highest building. That's what the CMs said, take it with the usual grain of salt.

But yep, that lightning strike is LOUD!!

 

[Mike730]

There is significantly more than one lightning rod on ToT. In general, there is significantly more than one lightning rod per building in the parks. If you get hit by lightning in the parks then that was some really determined lightning.

 

[MatthewWho13]

There are lightning rods on every building in the parks, they may not be visible on the edges but they are there. The higher ear of the mickey on top of the crossroads shop at DCA is actually made of copper and acts as a lighting rod as well.

 

[deere839]

Isn't Mickey at the entrance suppose to be a lightning rod?

 

[Goingdown13]

It did? I know Disney has lighting rods on all the buildings etc. That really isn't that hard to control unless the strike hits something other then what it is supposed too? Simple as a lighting rod and a wire of proper size to send the strike down to the ground with proper sized copper rods into the earth to guide the strike.

Yeah they have lightning rods and all but we're talking about a force thats what? 5 times hotter than the sun? Lightning is insane and will do damage regardless.

ToT is littered with lightning rods but they can still only do so much to protect it. Assuming lightning hits it and not something else.

However, this wasn't the first time it was hit and it certainly won't be the last. Space Mountain gets hit a good bit as well.

 

[huwar18]

We were at Epcot on Monday. It was nasty out. We got stuck in the Japan section of the World Showcase. It flooded parts of the Japan Pavilion. The water was coming up to our ankles when we were walking out.

 

[Clamman73]

We were at Epcot on Monday. It was nasty out. We got stuck in the Japan section of the World Showcase. It flooded parts of the Japan Pavilion. The water was coming up to our ankles when we were walking out.

I was stuck in the Mission Space gift shop at the time, but then later on after it stopped raining and they got TT going, was first on and got to re-ride without getting out of the car.