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Lightning strike pays powerful visit to church.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 31-MAR-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Lightning strike pays powerful visit to church.(Weather)(The blast zaps a tree, then zonks a sign's stone base to send rocks flying)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Greg Bolt The Register-Guard

Some days it just pays to stay indoors, and for Peter Desser, Thursday was one of those days.

Desser, owner of alarm installation company Apex Systems, was working inside a west Eugene church Thursday when a powerful lightning strike hit a tree outside, shot down its side and blasted apart a rock masonry sign. A rock from the sign torpedoed into his truck with such force it not only went through the windshield, it buried itself deep in the dashboard inside.

"It was like a bomb hit the place," Desser said. The rock, he said, was "about the size of three fists."

The strike was so powerful it...

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