Though the exact meanings are lost to us for all the different flowers and colors, we still use the rose to get our emotions across to the recipient. âThe single rose is, in essence, a symbol of completion, of consummate achievement and perfectionâ, says J. E. Cirlot in his âA Dictionary of Symbolsâ.
The plane didnât make an emergency landing or detour â it continued on to its destination of Denver, Colorado, where passengers got another shock: they found the lightning strike punched a hole through the nose of the plane.
Why does lightning strike from the ground-up? The enlightening image below is of a lightning strike slowed down at 10,000 frames per second. It can be seen that the most intense flash produced from the lightening occurs in the direction from the ground up.