“In one heavy thunder-shower the lightning struck a large pitch pine across the pond, making a very conspicuous and perfectly regular spiral groove from top to bottom, an inch or more deep, and four or five inches wide, as you would groove a walking-stick. I passed it again the other day, and was struck with awe on looking up and beholding that mark, now more distinct than ever, where a terrific and resistless bolt came down out of the harmless sky eight years ago.” - Henry David Thoreau, Walden "Walden," by Henry David Thoreau has many essay worthy quotations, but this one struck home with me because I can relate with what he experienced. I was able to have a similar reaction and feeling as what he had during this event. In Walden he talks about how the lightning struck a large pitch pine. It caused the tree to have a perfect spiral grove carved out of the tree all the way down. I think that just shows you how much damage a single bolt can be, but at the same time how beautiful it can make something. I think that it is amazing how something so powerful can make something beautiful in the end. Over the past summer my friends, family and myself were staying at a campground when we had a thunderstorm. We didn't think much of it because it is not uncommon in our area to have many thunderstorms. So we were relaxing in our camper when all of a sudden we saw and heard a lightning bolt strike a few trees. And because of this we lost power to our camper. Upon further inspection of the campgrounds we found out that one of the bolts from the lightning hit the main office building at the phone line five feet behind one of the workers of the camp. When it hit it sent power serge back down the power lines to our site. That is why we lost power at are camper. We were looking at the office and noticed that the Wi-Fi router looked odd when we looked at it closer we noted that most of the wiring in that area was fried along with the router. Parts