You’re driving south of St Petersburg, listening to some John Lennon. The traffic is a little heavy. God, this song is so great — and now, let us pause for an enormous electrical explosion that dominates the entire horizon.
The video comes along with this article from Fontanka.ru, so poorly Google-translated that I’m only able to ascertain that the fire department showed up at some point. I’m amazed the car’s passengers remained so calm — perhaps gigantic apocalyptic lightning conflagrations are just part of the ol’ St Petersburg commute. [Fontanka.ru via Reddit]
JohnHedge
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 12:07 PMThe lightening in StP can be quite spectacular but that takes the biscuit!
Spelling Police
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 6:25 PMIt’s Lightning not Lightening… Lightning is an electrical event from static built up in the atmosphere, lightening is to make something less heavy or a color shift more towards white…
Michael
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 1:32 AMWell, didn’t the sky go from a dark colour to a white colour?
chugs
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 12:21 PMand let the “in Soviet Russia’ jokes begin:
crud
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 12:27 PMlooks like a movie intro especially with that music sets the mood for some unsuspecting quick scares
Steve
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 1:24 PMThe same thing happened sorta in the town I lived in (longford, tasmania) when I was little. There was just one massive flash that lit up the whole sky! Of course then we were without power for hours :l
boom
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 1:49 PMIn Soviet Russia, the light turns on YOU!
chugs – you asked for it!
Stew
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 2:30 PMLucky SOPA got squished. Giz could have been shut down for embedding a clip with copyrighted music.
Alex
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 2:54 PMTranslation: Power trasformation station 110/35/6 КВ №45 has a technological fault on 35 KV equipment on 6th of February at 9AM. Local residents has called a fire brigade but they’re turned back as there were no fire. The power supply is restored to all consumers. The station is undergoing repairs and will be operational soon.
:-)
Does not looks as a big deal after all.