John Tedesco

Flying into Chicago two weeks ago, I encountered a crazy thunder storm that stranded my plane on the tarmac of O’Hare International Airport. Turns out, more storms pounded the city the week after I left, and the light show was captured by amazing videos and photographs.

This is a cool time lapse video of lightning hitting the three tallest buildings in Chicago. A photographer for the Chicago Tribune captured the moment of lightning striking two buildings, which sparked an online debate about whether the photo was doctored. Kelly McBride at Poynter discussed how the photo was verified by crowdsourcing.

Long story short: Lightning is cool, kids.

The wicked thunder of the storm this morning woke up everyone in our house but the baby. It was 3:30 a.m. I couldn’t sleep, so I got the video camera, went out on the porch and witnessed some amazing lightning. The video is up right now at mySA.com, and it’s packaged with a photo slideshow by Express-News photographers of the flooding, and a weather story by Eva Ruth Moravec.