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Tropical storm brings rain and 2,600 lightning strikes to San Luis Obispo

Moisture from a tropical storm off the coast of Mexico brought a lightning display that included about 2,600 strikes and sporadic rains last night and this morning, according to National Weather Service. The season’s first storm in San Luis Obispo County brought seven power outages that affected over 3,000 PG&E customers, a remarkable lightning show, […]

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Lightning hits, network’s out

Mustang Daily Staff Report news@mustangdaily.net Though lightning did not physically strike campus last week, a stray bolt did strike a chord at Cal Poly on Thursday when it hit an off-campus Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) line early that morning, prompting a campus-wide power surge. The surge temporarily stopped cooling units in the on-campus server room […]

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