Mixed reactions are currently trailing a video capturing the moment a flash of lightning struck the Statue of Liberty In New York, United States of America.
In a scene that seemed like a post-apocalyptic film, the bolt of lightning emerged from Lady Liberty’s torch, making for an electric portrait as captured by a photographer, Dan Martland, on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, a lot has been going on in New York City this week.
Just two days before a powerful earthquake rattled the city and areas around it all the way to Philadelphia on Friday morning, a severe storm hit the city and brought strong, damaging winds, heavy rain, and flashes of lightening.
Watch Video Of The Moment The Lightening Struck:
New York Statue of Liberty lighting how before 120 years when TESLA EXPERIMENT there pic.twitter.com/nvEOXtCY6I
— nikola 3 (@ronin19217435) April 6, 2024
Responding to a social media user’s question on how long he waited in the storm to capture this image, Martland said that he tracks the weather with apps before heading out to shoot.
“I usually track the weather with apps and head out if it’s looking good,” Martland wrote. “I’ve had times where I’ve been out for eight hours and got nothing. Today was only an hour. The storm passed pretty quick. And the apps showed that there was no more cells coming my way.”
The photographer also responded to those asking if the images were artificially staged, explaining that the shots are still images and that he used a lightning trigger to capture them.
Besides rain, gusts and lightning, Wednesday’s storm also brought destruction in the form of falling trees that left one person dead in Westchester County, about 36 miles north of downtown Manhattan.
They were identified as Catherine Tusiani, 50, the wife of Michael Tusiani, senior vice president of partnerships for the New York Yankees.
