"Dave Fossett" <reply@via.newsgroup> wrote in message news:<hHm5b.177$bL1.7@news1.dion.ne.jp>...
> Pretty impressive thunderstorm here this evening. I was looking out of the
> window watching people rushing home from the station on their bikes with
> umbrellas bravely raised, and wondered why they weren't worried about being
> hit by lightning. It turns out that one person not far from here wasn't so
> lucky, although it sounds like he was on an exposed river bank.
> http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/national/news/20030903ic25.htm

I didn't see the thunderstorm in Gifu, but the television shots on NHK
looked like a bad SF movie, especially the shots from Tokyo.