FREAK STORM
LIGHTNING DOES DAMAGE IN BRITAIN TWO BARRAGE BALLOONS BROUGHT DOWN. BUILDING IGNITED AT HENDON. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 9.55 a.m.) LONDON, February 26. A solitary lightning flash during a thunderstorm struck a winch, ran up a steel cable and brought down in flames one of the six balloons of the Stanmore barrage. The balloon fell on top of a hangar, damaging it, but no, body was injured. Another balloon was similarly destroyed between Chigwell and Buckhursts Hill. Lightning ignated a building being constructed at Hendon. It was a freak storm, being followed by ten minutes of darkness and causing temporary floods.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 February 1939, Page 5
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105FREAK STORM Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 February 1939, Page 5
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