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I'm in Silvester rd! heard the huge bang and saw the lightening strike as I was chatting on the phone to my mum and staring vacantly out the window (we were about an hour and 45 mins in), now my broadband router and modem are fried, won't even power up anymore...I'm having to post this tethered to my mobile.
Don't think this can be what I heard at the very top of lordship lane. Two very loud explosions like professional fireworks but no fireworks to be seen. Definitely not thunder although that was almighty here and 2 huge cracks that looked like they hit Crystal Palace tower.

GinaG3 Wrote:

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> Don't think this can be what I heard at the very

> top of lordship lane. Two very loud explosions

> like professional fireworks but no fireworks to be

> seen. Definitely not thunder although that was

> almighty here and 2 huge cracks that looked like

> they hit Crystal Palace tower.



I heard them too. They weren't long after

I was falling asleep putting my daughter down-sat bolt upright it was so loud through the triple glazing in her room. She was absolutely terrified poor tot. Was waiting for the rain that didn't come. It really was weird. Hope those people that were in the house are ok-must have been beyond frightening for them...

I was on Lordship Lane at the time talking to a friend at the bus stop outside Jaflong.

We were talking about a storm coming.


There was a Blinding flash. Max 1 second delay then a tremendous crash that scared the s**t out of me.

Other people around us look very alarmed when it happened.


Being outside it was so loud.


Foxy

Shortly after the big bang (lightning strike)- no more than 20 minutes - for some reason a couple of loud fireworks were set off around Underhill/ Wood Vale (I heard the 'whoosh' as well as the bang). This may have confused those close enough to hear the bangs but not the other firework noises.

there was a flash of lightening then the bang. i ran around crazed shouting switch the TV off! My daughter said why mummy and i said because the lightening can come down via the tv.


is that the case still or does noone switch lights/tvs off? or am i just a child of the 80s???

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