Lightning splits large redwood tree in residential Tacoma

Published 1:07 pm Thursday, August 13, 2015

Associated Press

TACOMA — A thunderstorm in the Puget Sound region gave some Tacoma residents a scare when lightning split an almost 100-foot-tall redwood tree in half.

Ty Ferguson tells KING-TV that the strike sounded almost like a gunshot from a battleship when it struck the 90-foot tree. The strike caused the tree to explode into pieces, with one going through Ferguson’s home window, another through his truck’s windshield.

The tree now stands only about 25 feet tall.