‘Firenado’ Breaks Out After Lightning Strikes Jim Beam Whiskey Factory

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What do you get when you mix flaming alcohol with lightning? A fucking badass swirling vortex of fire and bourbon apparently.

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The Jim Beam whiskey factory in Kentucky has been battered by lightning, heavy wind and rain, resulting in the rare phenomenon that wouldn’t look out of place in a knock-off Rambo movie.

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Apparently, the ‘firenado’ happened because flaming alcohol mixed with pools of water, before being sucked into the air by high winds. 800,000 gallons of whiskey tragically perished when it spilled into a retention pond near the factory that was swiftly engulfed in flames.

Thankfully nobody was injured, and the flames eventually put themselves out thanks to a creek close to the factory – Jim Beam have had to pay $27,000 in clean up costs to local authorities.

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Our thoughts are with Jim Beam in this hard time, and mourn the senseless loss of perfectly good whiskey.