Chasing Lightning Blog

This article starts off with very strong imagery. We can picture was it would have been like to inside the car and looking off into the huge clouds and seeing the lightning. We even get to see the windshield covered in crushed bugs and the cracks that the hail in forming. We also see that end of the storm and the rainbow which forms. The opening scene that the author describes is used as a cliff hanger. After the first scenario the author goes back and explains what the article is about. What help keep my attention through the whole article was the facts that the author wrote which were that we still don’t know everything about lightning. A picture of lightning striking the ground would be able to help these questions. I was also very interest in the camera system which could take images less than one-millionth of a second apart. It also helps keep attention is the fact that the chances of catching the lightning in the wild is close to zero due to the long time it takes to operate Kahuna and he has to be facing the lightning directly. The article does begin the lose excitement as it gets closer to the end. The ability to catch the picture in the wild is almost impossible. Even when the lightning strikes are triggered by rocket the new and improved Kahuna couldn't capture the picture because of the window in which the machine can take pictures. The article ends with Samaras still on the chase for the picture of the lightning strike.