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<\/a><\/div>\nAs Chicago was pummeled by heavy rain and thunderstorms Sunday, lightning struck ferociously across the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n
While the storms lashed the city and flash flood warnings were put in place, a driver caught the moment a bolt struck a telephone pole, blowing it into a million tiny pieces.<\/p>\n
The clip was taken by local resident Anja Englert on her drive home. It looks even more devastating in slo-mo.<\/p>\n
The Illinois Medical District transit station also took a direct hit, causing parts of its canopy to collapse<\/a> and train services across several lines to come to a halt.<\/p>\n That moment, which was preceded by a succession of sparks and flashes, was caught on camera by passing motorists. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n More about Storms<\/a>, Lightning<\/a>, Chicago<\/a>, Us World<\/a>, and Climate<\/a> As Chicago was pummeled by heavy rain and thunderstorms Sunday, lightning struck ferociously across the city.\u00a0 While the storms lashed the city and flash flood warnings were put in place, a driver caught the moment a bolt struck a telephone … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"