Ipswich Police report:
Marguerite Tomany, age 61, of North Grosvenor Dale, Conn., died as a result of injuries suffered in the lightning strike. The second victim, a 69-year-old woman from Concord, Mass. remains in critical condition at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Both were in the water on Saturday when the first of three storms to hit Ipswich suddenly appeared, police say.
Redsox223 watched lightning hit the Logan Airport control tower tonight (photo copyright Redsox223).
Dan Santry watched lightning strike from Winthrop:
Mark Bolster watched firefighters take care of business after lightning hit a house on W. 4 Street at F this morning.
Boom! Lightning over Somerville. Photo by R.S.Y. Buchanan.
They started the Esplanade fireworks a bit early tonight - just in time for them to end and evacuate the area as a storm plowed across the area, knocking out power in at least part of Waltham and Cambridge and sending skittish dogs and children under beds.
Christopher reports:
Have to give Boston Pops organizers credit on timing. Made it from the esplanade lagoon to Kenmore JUST as the rain started.
Daniel Guzman is at Fenway Park, where Frozen Fenway has turned into Soggy Fenway and he has now experienced that oddest of things: a hockey game postponed on account of lightning.
He adds the PA started playing "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?"
The formerly upright tree, at the intersection of Warren and Walnut avenues, is now horizontal and lying across the road, at least until the DPW or Parks Department can remove it.
Pouring on State Street.
Paul Levy, who lives near a soccer field in Newton, looked out and saw something disturbing:
Firefighters rushed to Washington Street by JJ Brannelly's after lightning hit a transformer shortly before 5 p.m. Wires fell on a parked car and residences and businesses in the area lost power.
Willy got some video.
UPDATE: Jason Laramie reports the power came back around 5:50 p.m.
Not long after, Todd Gutner was going over the day's weather news on WBZ when lightning hit the station. Donna Halper reports:
The Herald interviews witnesses who saw two people get hit by lightning in South Boston's Thomas Park on July Fourth.
Boston EMTs and firefighters rushed to Thomas Park in South Boston shortly before 11 p.m. to find and treat a man and a woman hit by lightning. Both were reported conscious when crews arrived.
David Chau was in the right place and time to capture a lightning bolt hitting the East Boston waterfront during yesterday afternoon's storm.
Commish96 shot this last night. Lightning strikes on the Pru are actually relatively common, but always dramatic.
Historygradguy titled his photo of the Back Bay OMFG (see it large). Nathanael Hevelone captured some lightning over Allston at the height of the storm:
Meanwhile, the mayor's office reports about 3,000 customers lost power in the storm, concentrated in Dorchester, West Roxbury and Brighton.
Top photo copyright Historygradguy. Hevelone's photo posted under this Creative Commons license and in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
NECN reports on a lightning strike at the "Sugar Bowl" off Castle Island:
The National Weather Service concludes its cataclysmic forecast for this afternoon ("AN ISOLATED TORNADO OR WATERSPOUT IS POSSIBLE") with
SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED TODAY
Our very own Kaz ponders this:
I imagine something like Power Rangers. "Spotters, ACTIVATE!"
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