78,315 Lightning Strikes in One Night

Yellowknife had a whopper of a lightning storm earlier this month. Since nobody was getting any sleep that night, most of us were up late watching the storm. Over 78,000 strikes happened that night. The storm set off a number of forest fires in the area. It was the most amazing lightning storm I have ever seen. CBC reported it as a record. The picture shows a lightning strike in downtown Yellowknife.

Needless to say the power was out for the better part of the night. I've been told that Yellowknife has a power evacuation plan in case of extended power outages. If the power goes out for over 4 hours in the winter ( I think it's 4 hours ), the entire city gets evacuated. At -40 degrees, if the power goes out for an extended period of time, I would want to be evac'd someplace warm. Jamaica, maybe?