A woman in New Mexico peeked outside after hearing thunder and started filming a storm, ultimately capturing stunning footage of lightning strikes behind her home. After Kacie Henke slowed her footage down to 0.1x speed, she realized what she’d captured and posted it to Instagram. Tens of thousands of people have liked her video, which shows streaks of lightning flashing across a purple sky.
Henke is a realtor in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and she says she was heading outside to get her pool ready for the storm when she started filming the lightning. While it didn’t look like much more than some quick flashes of light in realtime, when Henke slowed the footage down as much as her device would allow, it became clear that she’d captured something special.
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“Wow, just wow! Lightning strikes slowed down to 0.1x speed and it’s still almost too fast. Wow!!” Henke wrote in her Instagram post sharing the footage. “What an incredible, much needed storm it was tonight here in Las Cruces, NM.”
Watch some slow-mo lightning strikes from a recent storm in New Mexico here:
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