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.
Bark Damage. When lightning strikes a tree, it can cause the tree to bend and bounce back, which cracks the bark. Sometimes this splits the tree open; other times, it blows bark from the tree and breaks branches. In the case of multiple shock waves, more splitting may be noticeable.