And it rained, and rained even harder, and lightning charged and the thunder clapped like celestial Maori drums as the boat rocked through the night.
"It's hard to catch lightning in a bottle twice," Mr. McCain has said countless times in the last seven years when asked if he'd ever run for president again after 2000.
In Normal and Hard modes, if Lightning flees from or dies in battle, one in-game hour is lost.
Abundez wore a hard hat with lightning bolts on the sides, a No. 55 jersey to honor Chargers great Junior Seau and blue and yellow camouflage cargo shorts.
It was a little harder to say lightning struck twice in 2012 (defeating of a pair of strong, qualified candidates in John McCain and Mitt Romney), but he's just one guy and one office, right?
It ended with the frenetic, hard-riffing duo Lightning Bolt performing on the floor of the Stardust Ballroom, with Brian Chippendale (wearing noise-protector earphones) slamming away at the drums and gabbling through a distorting microphone while Brian Gibson sent his bass lines through wailing, rumbling octave-shifting effects.
Mr. Martin suggests it is hard to summon the lightning in a bottle more than once and theorizes that great work can come only from desperation.
"The reality is that it is very hard to do — catching lightning in a bottle," Chris Lehane, a Democratic consultant, said of efforts to sway voters with film.
They gave up touchdowns the first two times their defense was on the field, when the air was still filled with the thunder, lightning and hard rain that delayed the start of the game by 20 minutes.
That type of serendipitous lightning is hard to bottle twice.
That prevents Spain from constructing super-slow clay courts, or the United States from designing lightning-quick hard ones, to suit their own players' preferred styles.
