lightning storm

The last place you want to be when it rains, or during a lightning storm, is clinging to a steel cable on slippery granite high above the treeline.

The 2003 disaster film “The Core” imagines that the rotation of Earth’s center has stalled, damaging the magnetic field that envelops the planet — and triggering a violent lightning storm that destroys Rome and “invisible microwaves” that melt the Golden Gate Bridge.

The women, including some in their 70s, were chased off the hill at Vail because of a lightning storm on Wednesday afternoon, but that didn’t end up being close to the worst part of their trip.

In another, Flynn, whom organizers call “America’s general,” was pictured in full military uniform, a bald eagle flying through a lightning storm behind him.

A lightning storm suspended play for 75 minutes but it did not affect Hovland's progress and the world number five came out of the delay with birdies at the 12th and 13th holes to build a seven-shot advantage.