Lightning and the Runaway Breakdown Theory at the At the Speed of Light! blog.

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Oh, and here’s another link, in case you were thinking the title was a reference to the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest

“The Barents sea heaved and churned like a tortured animal in pain, the howling wind tearing packets of icy green water from the shuddering crests of the waves, atomizing it into mist that was again laid flat by the growing fury of the storm as Kevin Tucker switched off the bedside light in his Tuba City, Arizona, single-wide trailer and by the time the phone woke him at 7:38, had pretty much blown itself out with no damage.”