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Lightning near New River Gorge Bridge

Lightning on Dolly Sods. Photo courtesy Anne Johnson

Lightning strikes in the plateaus south of the New River Gorge Bridge near Fayetteville, West Virginia. Photo courtesy Anne Johnson

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