Southern Byways

“The man with his finger on the thunderstorm warning button for the National Weather Service had a brother killed by lightning. That changed his life and set his career direction.

A few miles south of metropolitan Tampa, in a tomato-growing community named Ruskin, there’s a building down a two-lane road that is nondescript except for one thing.

It bristles with satellite dishes and domed radars.

Inside that building, workers watch computer screens feed information from the spy equipment outside. Those radars and satellite dishes are tracking an enemy known to kill Floridians.

And that would be… lightning!

We were just out for a walk a few nights ago and a storm blew in. It had to be of the scariest things I have ever seen, but if you are safely indoors, it is also one of the most incredible.

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