Lightning Storm Over the East River and Queensboro Bridge, NYC, August 2018

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Channel: FREEDOMNEWS TV - NATIONAL / SCOOTERCASTER · 2018 · People & Blogs

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August 7, 2018 MANHATTAN, NEW YORK — Repeated lightning flashes lit the sky over the East River during a nighttime thunderstorm.

The video shows the illuminated Queensboro Bridge and Roosevelt Island apartment buildings across the East River at night, cloud-to-cloud lightning, the waterfront railing and lamps of the East River esplanade, and onlookers photographing the storm with phones.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Lightning over Roosevelt Island
0:49 Onlookers film the storm
1:48 Bright flash over the river
2:37 Lightning over the Queensboro Bridge
3:07 Continued flashes

BACKGROUND
NY1 reported that a severe thunderstorm crossed New York City on the night of Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018, sending lightning over Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. CBS New York reported that lightning struck three people in Queens.

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