Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100421:03:36:00
This is an explosive charge of gases and ash thrown up into the sky. and when it's thrown up into the sky, at literally hundreds of miles per hour, it's like 1 million little people rubbing their feet on the carpet making shocks and making sparks, you know, in the wintertime when the humidity is low. you rub your feet, touch the doorknob, you get a shock. this is now rubbing all of these ash particles together, creating static, and the static electricity is one gigantic lightning show. >> amazing pictures. chad, appreciate it. thanks. air travel is still a mess tonight, not nearly as big a m...