Amazing Images Of Lightning Bolts Hitting The Same Spot

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A tour guide in Albuquerque, New Mexico captured an 11 minute lightning storm that repeatedly pounded the earth disqualifying any rule that lightning doesn't strike the same place twice.

Albuquerque's high altitude of over 5,200 feet attracts the lighting with its added dry atmosphere and moisture from the Gulf of Mexico The bolts pounded the ground with an average power of one billion volts

Over 200 people a year are killed in the US by lightning strikes, and New Mexico is often the state with the most deaths

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