VIVID LIGHTNING
HOUSE STRUCK - MR RAMSAY MACDONALD’S ESCAPE STORM IN LONDON (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, August 31. Mr Ramsay MacDonald had a narrow escape when the house at which he was staying at Cattcrick Camp was struck by lightning in Friday’s storm and all the electrical wires were fused. Mr MacDonald, who was returning to Lossiemduth by air, was forced, through bad weather conditions, to turn back at the Scotish border and make a landing at Catterick. Interviewed yesterday, he said: “The storm was violent, and it lasted some hours. If we had been up half an hour later we would have got it. It came suddenly.’’
The London heat wave reached its climax at midnight when an electrical storm broke over the capital and continued for about three hours. The storm was heralded by vivid lightning unaccompanied by thunder. Then came the thunder. It increased an intensity and people returning from the theatres were caught in the storm. Thunderstorms occurred in other • parts of England and Scotland.
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Southland Times, Issue 21177, 2 September 1930, Page 5
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168VIVID LIGHTNING Southland Times, Issue 21177, 2 September 1930, Page 5
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