DESCRIPTION: October 12, 2006 9:55PM. After almost 3 hours of 100's of bolts of lightning I was done. This is the last photograph of the evening but the show did continue. According to Chris Arndt of SLOweather.com we received almost 5,700 strikes of lightning during this storm. It averaged out to 480 strikes per hour or 8 strikes per minute. INCREDIBLE!