Lightning Knocks Out News: Weatherman Keeps Going Despite Dark

Effects of Lightning Strike

Weather man Todd Gutner is presenting the weather – giving special attention to an active storm front with lightning expected. Then suddenly – the screen goes black, lightning strikes the local TV station in Boston. Undeterred Gutner continues – in the dark. Fairly quickly the audio comes back up with the help of backup generators. “We just took a potent lightning strike, probably right to the rooftop or to our transmitter,” Gutner says as he continues his forecast…in the dark!

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