What was that HUGE flash in Castletroy

AlanD

Just now I was outside looking from Annacotty towards Castletroy and I saw a huge flash that made the night sky light up as if it was day time. All the street lights went out and came back on straight away. It was as if something blew in an ESB station.

Never seen anything like it.

Stan the man

Googlemaps did the new photos? :D

4tothefloor

Lay off the mushrooms Alan

billy the squid

I'm perplexed that the only sensible response was posted, and then deleted by the author

was probably lightning.

goingpostal

If you looked at the moon last night, you could see the planet Jupiter just next to it. Would that have had anything to do with it?

Sleipnir

goingpostal wrote: »

If you looked at the moon last night, you could see the planet Jupiter just next to it. Would that have had anything to do with it?

Jupiter causing a huge flash and then knocking all the lights off?
I hope not.

tommy249

Electricity in my house in C.troy went off for a couple of seconds at about 10.30pm last night. Went off for about 3 seconds and came back on!

AlanD

The flash was definitely from the ground up. It wasn't lightening because the sky was relatively clear.

Closest station is the one I think on the Tipperary road at Ballysimon I think, so maybe that's where it came from.

Nothing fell from the sky either, so Jupiter is still there I reckon!

Raiser

It wasn't Itsdacraic was it? - He's been known to flash around the Castletroy area :P

It like to have the OP undergo a battery of psychological tests; Then we can just detain him indefinitely regardless of the results.......

- To get back on topic, my bet would be lightning.

D-A-V-E

Limerick seems to have a lot of lights at night time, the gaelic grounds floodlights are sometimes on at the same time as thomond parks..if anyone was flying over the place they'd wonder whats going on!

what i think happened was this, as far as im aware, the university has massive generators that supports the castletroy area should a blackout occur..the flash was probably an explosion of some generator leaving castletroy temperarily in the dark..3 second until the generators kicked in..that would be my theory??

Itsdacraic

Raiser wrote: »

It wasn't Itsdacraic was it? - He's been known to flash around the Castletroy area :P

This story checks out, because it is HUGE

TestTransmission

D-A-V-E wrote: »

what i think happened was this, as far as im aware, the university has massive generators that supports the castletroy area should a blackout occur..the flash was probably an explosion of some generator leaving castletroy temperarily in the dark..3 second until the generators kicked in..that would be my theory??

No,generators dont usually have big "flashes" of some sort without any major repercussions

D-A-V-E

jackncoke wrote: »

No,generators dont usually have big "flashes" of some sort without any major repercussions

no the generators probably kicked in after 3 seconds..the flash was the power station or whatever you call it overloading and exploding!

Comhrá

- To get back on topic, my bet would be lightning.

The weather on Sept.22nd all over Limerick was calm, dry and fine but partly overcast. No rain, no thunderstorms, not much of anything in fact.
Typical settled, high-pressure weather pattern.
Why would someone think there was lightning present?

source

I blame the Aliens.I heard they kidnapped Zurpoh and gave him an anal probe.

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D-A-V-E wrote: »

no the generators probably kicked in after 3 seconds..the flash was the power station or whatever you call it overloading and exploding!

Obviously

tommy249

tippman1 wrote: »

The weather on Sept.22nd all over Limerick was calm, dry and fine but partly overcast. No rain, no thunderstorms, not much of anything in fact.
Typical settled, high-pressure weather pattern.
Why would someone think there was lightning present?

Do you mean Sept 29th?

source

If it was a generator blowing or a sub-station blowing it wouldn't have just been a flash there would have been a pretty large bang too.

AlanD

foinse wrote: »

If it was a generator blowing or a sub-station blowing it wouldn't have just been a flash there would have been a pretty large bang too.

I couldn't say I heard a bang as I was in the car at the time.

However, what delivered the light must have been had an extremely high energy source. The sky was brighter than any lightening than I've seen before (granted that lightening has it's light shrowded in cloud) and definitely came from the ground up. There seemed to be an epicentre to the light.

I just had a look at Google Earth to see could I be more accurate on the direction based on which way I was facing. The light came from the direction of the University.

Some dodgy quantum physics experiment? Are there any buildings missing over there?

So the event definitely knocked all the power in the area for a couple of seconds and then everything came back on line again.

Amazotheamazing

foinse wrote: »

I blame the Aliens.I heard they kidnapped Zurpoh and gave him an anal probe.

I heard they didn't want to, but he insisted.

zuroph

Glad i wandered in on this thread. What can I say, she was gorgeous!

Anyway, yeah, saw this last night and would love to know, very glad I'd only recently installed a surge protector on the tv socket.

Comhrá

Do you mean Sept 29th?

Yeah..... I got my dates mixed up. Although it was fine and settled all last week too.
Definitely no lightning around Limerick........if there was, there would have been thunder and heavy showers in the area.

Ashfield

Actually man, I saw this aswell
I was out in Lisnagry and I saw it, but from where I was it came from over by the Annacotty industrial estate,

TestTransmission

We were not affected in work.
And we would notice any tiny fluctuation in the power supply in the Castletroy area I guarantee

MmmmmCheese

Hmm i was fairly close to there and didn't see any bright light.

Didn't hear anything in college about an explosion of any sort either.

Gneez

AlanD wrote: »

I couldn't say I heard a bang as I was in the car at the time.

However, what delivered the light must have been had an extremely high energy source. The sky was brighter than any lightening than I've seen before (granted that lightening has it's light shrowded in cloud) and definitely came from the ground up. There seemed to be an epicentre to the light.

I just had a look at Google Earth to see could I be more accurate on the direction based on which way I was facing. The light came from the direction of the University.

Some dodgy quantum physics experiment? Are there any buildings missing over there?

So the event definitely knocked all the power in the area for a couple of seconds and then everything came back on line again.

sounds like you travelled to a divergent timeline like in donnie darko, only explanation!

zuroph

gone again, saw the huge flash three times, then power out. Esb say major fault, suspected vandals too. Its weird seeing whole place dark!