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GALLERY: Lightning strikes captured along the Central Coast

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Michelle DeBilzan or @shellsbackyard on Instagram
Nipomo lightning captured by Michelle in her own backyard!
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Jass Moolah and Luis Enciso
"Photo taken Saturday morning at 9:50 a.m. by south end of Santa Maria."
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Miguel Espindola
Taken in Santa Maria around 10:20 a.m. Saturday morning.
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Miguel Espindola
Taken in Santa Maria around 10:20 a.m. Saturday morning.
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Patrick and Tina Stemlock
Taken in Orcutt around 10 a.m.
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Mike Eliason
Taken in the Santa Ynez Valley.
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Mike
Taken in Santa Maria.
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Colson Pusley
" I took this photo of a lightning strike from Santa Maria this morning (08/15/2020) while looking NW."
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Steve Arring
"Lightning in Orcutt over our home."
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Dennis Paduganan
"The color enhanced photo taken in Santa Maria yesterday at Trinity landscape Center"
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Rex
Taken in Lompoc.
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Whitney Ater
Lightning at El Capitan.
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Shari Hurlbut
Lightning in Lompoc.
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Matt Udkow
Lightning in Solvang.
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Antoinette Thorson
"The lightning is from the weather today 8/13/2020. I took the picture from my back yard in Lompoc."
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Kathy Bleak
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Matt Udkow
Lightning in Solvang.
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Matt Udkow
Lightning in Solvang.
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Published 2:16 am

CENTRAL COAST, Calif. - A thunderstorm moved its way up the West Coast Saturday morning.

Striking pictures and video capturing lightning strikes were shared with our newsroom from Goleta up to Nipomo.

These lightning strikes littered the coast, sparking a multitude of spot fires. All lightning fires in Santa Barbara County were successfully halted by Saturday afternoon while a few San Luis Obispo County fires continued to grow.

As the thunderstorm traveled, residents across the Santa Ynez Valley, Santa Maria and up into San Luis Obispo County suffered from blackouts. These outages lasted hours and impacted thousands of homes. The cause of the outages has not yet been shared.

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