Lightning Strikes Tyne Bridge. Filmed from Top floor
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- Опубликовано: 27 июн 2012
- Filmed by Marc Burton from Paul Somervilles Apartment
Filmed using a BlackBerry phone from a penthouse in Newcastle as my friend filmed the opposite direction with an iPhone. Cars can barely pass through the flooded underpass. The clip has been played on Sky News, BBC News and ITV News.
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Ahh it's 2017 and still, the memories of this day are crystal clear, First and only time I've ever seen purple and blood red lightning
Thats what happens to mackems who try to sneak into the toon!
Thats awsome to have caught that on vid mate
I love the fact that everyone causes a huge thing over the tyne bridge being hit by lightning. The Stadium of Light could have burned to the ground, and not a single geordie would have cared
This brings me back
Watched this on the news! so cool!
Similar weather in Carlisle earlier but now we have blue sky & sunshine!
Well done mate, your video has just made TV News
Wow 10 years ago today since Thunder Thursday - not seen a storm like this since :) - this video is iconic
am i the only person in this city who thought the whole thing was kinda beautiful? obviously i understand if you were stranded somewhere but from a safe shelter it was amazing
this has just been on TV man your views will probably go up abit now, good capture btw
"I've got that on video!"
epic video mate, brilliantly lucky to capture this. Nice one!
thanks for the heads up
Brilliant video!
What timing , good shot x
I just saw this on BBC news 24.
Infact it's on again as I type.
Well done :)
Well captured! Looks amazing!
No I agree, I was out in it and it was really spectacular!
You posted this video as quick as lightening!!
Do NOT give permission to anyone else to use unless they pay you a fee...this is a great capture! Stuff the numbers - get paid for what nobody else got!
So bloody true! I can't remember it ever being so bad but I bet most of us will be back at work or whatever as usual. Don't know exactly where that lightning struck but I swear I felt it!!!!! I was at work at the time (near centre for life) I had just got in when the heavens opened. Never been so lucky in my life
Incredible!! Love a good storm!!
Great shot! Nicely caught! A crazy night indeed.
Coolest day of my life... The flash flood and that, so cool being out in it and watching it!
well captured..
the still shot has been used on all kinds of local and national newspapers, wow
I saw this shown on Sky News saying "filmed by Paul Somervilles and Marc Burton"
First time Newcastle have had a decent striker.
Splendid.
that was awesome!
The car is the safest place to be in when lightning strikes :)
We haven't had a strike up here like that since Shearers days!
Fantastic
It struck my house today! It shook and it sounded like a thousand fireworks going off in my back garden!
I've just jogged home through that. Glad I live on the hill up West End, town was horrendous
I was on my way home from bth Form when it started up in Blyth. Freakin' bolt of lightning hit the ground a few metres in front of my bus. I nearly had a heart attack! I haven't seen fork lightning like this in our neck of the woods!
BBC have just used this clip during their Wimbledon coverage in a montage surrounding Rafa Nadal's spectacular crash out of the tournament yesterday, thought you'd like to know!
Awesome!
What the very?! This is Newcastle, it is real and I was on the bridge at the time of this. There was also around 13 other lightning strikes prior and previous to this.
BBC contacted me asking to use the video, which I agreed with as it has helped send it viral, however certain companies havent
just seen this on North East Tonight on ITV 1 :)!
Great stuff, got to love mother nature!
It's Newcastle, the hydrolic bridge down at the bottom right is a Newcastle landmark.
This is so going viral!
This is on the news now o.o wow
I was watching from the other side of the river, in that building you can see. It was soooo loud.
If this was London it'd be viral by now.
Yup, this seems to be getting a lot of attention. Great shot, well done. It was bad here too (Newbiggin), although i was using my crappy iPhone to record it! :(
I live here and the weird thing was you could hear the thunder first then the sky turned a strange green colour then came the lightning and torrential rain and winds. It was a bit like War of the Worlds. About 10 inches of rain in just over an hour.
I'm not complaining this storm gave me a free pool in my back garden. :D
AWESOME SHOT and from a Geordie in Australia FOOOKING AWESOME ACCENT :)
Its in England mate, you can see the swing bridge down by the side of the tyne bridge
That's right as heck, people pause at 0:07 ,amazing.
2012 was a crazy year
It was a real bad storm here in Geordieland and flooding everywhere, trust me that lighting strike was the real thing⚡⚡⚡⚡
Hmm, one video goes up from Newcastle, floods of messages. It was only a small light show, the real fun is how they're going to deal with the flooding down by Walkergate and other such places XD Glad I am in Byker :D
he was happy cos he got it on the news
Jesus!!! Well caught. We keep catching the wrong way...lol
Not as frightening as the traffic jams caused by the rain, some people still haven't got home from work yet!
Just a bit jealous that those fucking southern fairies didn't get proper Geordie lightning like that
Was on the national news on BBC News 24 on the daily re-cap too.
just seen it on bbc news
It's not fake, the exact same thing has just happened right next to my house, I don't think I can remember the last time Newcastle had such bad weather
YES!!!
Does he say "I got that on video" ?
The Lighting Hit Off Me Bin! in The Street xx
My god that was insane! Glad someone "gorritonvideo" ;)
The guy filming this is on the Newcastle side filming the Gateshead end of the bridge the lightning hits near the gateshead HIlton Hotel...anyone else see the van move from that area after the lightnin hit?
No mate, it's defiantly Newcastle, you can tell by the bridges and the fact the bloke can use a camera.
I hope ITV gives you some money for that shot
Holy moly!
I don't understand how a video with 625 likes and 6 dislikes has only 302 views on the counter :s Great capture btw :-)
It was like something from independence day, the sky was a light green just before it hit.
WOW!
I was cycling at the far end of this when this happened. Deafening would be mild term to describe the noise!
Err, it isn't mate. I live in Blyth, a nearby coastal town. This storm has been going on for over two and a half hours mate. the roads are flooded, buses and trains are cancelled, people are stranded and some folks are losing power. Not a computer edit at all.
Wasn't this played during the Wimbledon match tonight too?
this is god saying "demba, dont you think about leaving"
it hit a lightning rod, placed there to protect the bridge from lightning strikes, it will (as you see) send the bolt down to the ground...
Awesome
KABOSH!!!
Shit the bed - that hit the ground harder than Lee Cattermole after a Tiote tackle.
We can only hope Mr Cattermole was travelling across wor beloved bridge, back to The Village of the Damned, when that lightening bolt struck....
lightning struck across the road from me, didn't get it on film though! was bloody loud that storm like
In Blyth, a bolt of lightning struck the ground a few metres infront of the school bus as I was coming back from sixth form. I nearly crapped myself. My poor dog is going mental, my lights are flickering and the roads and flooded to hell.
im so glad i wasnt at work when this storm hit. would have been drenched as i ride my bike to and from work
Not to mention the extreme floods.
m8 this is class u's watching everybody in danger from the apartment lol
3 Years ago today since those famous storms :)
I saw this on Wimbledon last night :D
made the national news!!! haha what a belta :)
I am stuck at work cos of this
get it on movie maker and get a frame shot of the strike - it'll be the best pic you'll ever have!
Just been on the news!
I think this is Fkuing awesome!!! WD mate!!!
good timing
It's only a little bit of lightning!
I got also lighting videos on my channel. But i wanna have a shot like this.this is awesome.
I was there! :o It was terrifying!!
"Yyyyyess! I go-at on v-e-yo!"
There's always one smartarse. This is next to my house. It's happened three times in the last 20 minutes.
Looks like everyone knew this was going to happen and had already whipped out their video cameras.