Hills thunderstorms not a bolt from the blue - Hills News

THE recent thunderstorms have been particularly electrifying.

In The Hills, there were four lightning incidents — that we know of — in two weeks, including one that led to a 65-year-old Baulkham Hills man being hospitalised after he got struck by a thunder bolt on March 7.

Winston Hills Mall shopping centre was struck by lightning in the same storm, destroying an air-conditioning plant and damaging a travelator.

More recently, on March 15, The Hills SES felled a tree in August Place, Rouse Hill.

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