[dTal]

You're implying that this is a mislabeled long exposure photograph. The fact that you can see distinct ripples at all shows the exposure time was less than a second. I think it's fair to call three lightning strikes within a second of each other "simultaneous".

[dTal]

update: I downloaded the original image. The EXIF data indicates the exposure time was 5 seconds. Apologies for the inaccurate assertion.

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