Lightning Strikes In The Christ of Rio de Janeiro

Lightning strikes in the Christ of Rio de Janeiro , and it takes a finger. This is the amazing photo of that moment, in which a lightning storm Thursday night, reached the Cristo Redentor , the Brazilian city icon . Although the great statue , 38 meters high, has lightning rods, this was not enough for lightning , high strength, conduct damage one of his fingers.

Up to 40,000 rays were recorded during the storm . Not the first time the image of Christ receives the lash of lightning , between 3 and 5 fall each year on it. Famously which fell shortly after Benedict XVI announced his retirement . Many saw it as a divine message.

Over the next month the restoration will take place. It's so normal for storms discharge their electrical power on the Christ, even the officials who work there have an emergency plan to evacuate tourists.

The truth is that the photos in which the protagonist is a beam having a great response from fans to photography. In fact one of the latest photos on flickr is the view showing a beam splitting in two a tree. Very famous was also a photo that looks at the Eiffel Tower illuminated at one of these flashes .