Crime & Safety

Snapshot: Lightning Hits Woodbury Water Tower (Again)

The tower near Red Rock Elementary gets hit two or three times a year, according to a nearby resident.

While firefighters at a Woodbury home on Tuesday, there was another lightning strike across town that didn’t cause as much commotion.

During the midday storm at that came through Woodbury, lightning hit the water tower at , according to Brian Warford, who lives near the tower.

“It sounded like somebody set off a stick of dynamite,” he said.

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The tower gets hit by lightning two or three times a year, said Warford, who built his home in the area 12-13 years ago.

He works from home a few times a week, and was on the phone in his office Tuesday afternoon when a large orange and white flash of lightning struck outside his window.

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Greg Schlichting, assistant Woodbury fire chief, said no one called in about the strike at the water tower on Tuesday. There was a report of a lightning-induced fire at , but firefighters found that employees there were burning off excess gas from a tank, “which we do not condone,” Schlichting told Patch.

Back near Red Rock Elementary, Warford said he wasn’t overly startled by Tuesday's lightning strike.

“I’m a storm watcher, so I was like, ‘That was cool,’” he said.


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