Western PA flash in sky, power blip

And so it begins....









AGAIN....

Northside here....I was outside bout hour and 1/2 ago..and I saw flash then the tranforner across the street flashed and buzzed. Not sure why

Hmmm, I'm at the Jersey Shore (NJ, not PA), and saw a couple of very bright flashes in the sky (Northwestern) about 6:45, no sound just two or three bright, yellow flashes. Very bright, like lightening, but it wasn't lightening.

castle shannon. Heard the boom. Power went out for five minutes ln just half the house.

We lost it for only a few seconds, less than 30. But the lines outside were really buzzing as it came back.

is it like the one that happened over Texas this morning?

Thread: Flash in the whole sky - Central Texas

That's why I posted it, I had read the Texas thread this morning.

I was completely weird. We were watching a movie when the power went out and the flash happened almost at the same time. My boy also reported a loud sound, but not something like an explosion. He said sonic boom, but I don't know if he would know what that sounds like. We heard something too, but not as clear as he seemed to.

I jumped up and got to the front door to look outside. From our front door, we can see a pretty good distance as we're up on a hill. As far as I could see, lights were out. Being close to Christmas, normally I can see Christmas light several hills over. There was nothing. A few of my neighbors were also stepping outside. But in less than a minute, the lights were back on.

We have a power line pretty close to the house and a small transformer on the pole in the front yard. They were buzzing pretty good as power was coming back on and for a few minutes after. Again, we don't usually hear the lines at all. I'm not sure if it's normal for them to buzz as power comes back to a line. Any line workers want to shed some light on that? (see what I did there?)

Anyway, we've been looking on news sights for any reports, but so far nothing.

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