The same storm triggered a lightning bolt that hit a construction worker in the Lower Mainland. Winds gusted to 100 km/h, kicking up thick clouds of dust, uprooting trees, and cutting power to parts of Kamloops. In Southern BC, September roared in with high winds and driving rain. At times the lightning gave the mountains the appearance of erupting volcanoes. At times, the sun shone brightly through magnificent clouds, as thunder roared, lightning flashed and rain fell. On this date, Vancouver had 12 hours of the most spectacular lightning in years. Vancouver sees far fewer lightning strikes than most Canadian cities, averaging six thunderstorm days a year. Wrote the editor: “…had it happened a few seconds later, I would have been electrocuted while cooking up a batch of Kraft Dinner. Lightning had indeed struck an aluminum stack on the top of his house and travelled through it before discharging out the stove.
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The electric meter and basement windows vanished without a trace, but most mysterious of all was the disappearance of the copper wiring in one circuit the rubber insulation of which showed no trace of char or burn.Īn editor of The Daily News in Kamloops, reported that his stove had exploded in a blinding white flash. The electric charge travelled down the side of the house and tore a large hole in the ground. The mp3 player was burnt to a crisp.Ī bolt of lightning struck a home in North Vancouver. He suffered 50 per cent hearing loss in both ears and could no longer play in the church orchestra. It ruptured his eardrums, fractured his jaw, inflicted first and second-degree burns from his chest up into his ear channels, and burned his left leg and foot, then obliterated his sneaker. In Burnaby, lightning struck a runner listening to religious music on his mp3 player. Even the Aboriginals who viewed lightning as a reminder to children that there was “a brighter eye and a mightier voice than humans,” said they would have to sit down and think out an explanation for the phenomenon. Experts couldn’t remember anything of the kind happening on the west coast so early in the year. Weather experts were surprised by a winter thunderstorm in Vancouver.
The sleigh-riders retaliated by sweeping away the sand. Two city workers shoveled and sanded the surface, thus spoiling the hill for sleighing. Almost 250 tobogganists had fun sliding down a steep city street, often stopping motorists to get a tow up. Thousands of workers walked home in the rain and afternoon theatre crowds had no way to get home.ĭuring a dazzling display of lightning, about 25 cm of snow fell on parts of Vancouver, its multicolored effect rivaling any sunset or rainbow. The storm severed two of BC Electric Railway’s four high-voltage transmission lines, paralyzing the system. A brilliant blue flash of flame, followed by a loud thunderclap, scared many residents. For nearly an hour, Vancouver experienced a riveting thunderstorm, with vivid lightning.
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