Lightning hits tree, sends branches over one block radius

I was walking through the woods east of Wasseralfingen, West Germany, when I saw an odd, radial pattern of splinters on the forest floor. I followed to the center and found two trees. The stricken tree was cracked in half, with the top half leaning on top of a neighboring tree, which also had been cracked. I wish I’d had a camera. Pardon my crude drawing.

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