An article by science website Mother Nature Network explains the weather phenomenon is found above swamp ground in northwest Venezuela and averages 28 lightning strikes-per-minute for up to 10 hours at a time - something thats so bright it can be seen from over 400km away and is so dependable it has been used by sailors and fishermen as a lighthouse.
But more than helping to guide ships safely ashore the lighting has also played a major role in the countrys defence by helping to scupper would-be stealthy night time invasions. In 1595 the bright bolts revealed an invading fleet of ships from England, while in 1823 it exposed Spanish ships trying to slyly encroach during the Venezuelan War of Independence.

This natural wonder has been stirring up debate among scientists as to its constant appearance.
Situated where the Catatumbo River meets Lake Maracaibo, which is surrounded by mountains, this forms a bowl-like shape perfect for trapping warm trade winds from the Caribbean Sea that clash into the cool air rolling down from the mountains and sent into the air to condense into thunderclouds.

The large lakes rapidly evaporating water in the intense Venezuelan heat provides a constant supply of updrafts, acting like a big thunderstorm machine.

However, some argue the large amounts of methane gas that bubble to the surface from the oil deposits deep below Lake Maracaibo are accountable for the omnipresent storms. This theory has yet to be proven but most experts believe there is not enough methane present to cause such storms.

Why has nobody tried to harness the energy produced there somehow?

What color is this lightning you speak about.

Jupiter has a fairly constant storm going on... bit far to travel though

There has been only a handful of times Relmpago del Catatumbo has ceased to strike. The most recent was back in 2010 when the lights went out for six weeks. Locals were mystified and slightly saddened by the absence. The cause for its disappearance was apparently El Nino - another weather phenomenon that affects global weather patterns and caused vast areas of South America, including Venezuela, to plunge into drought.
The weather wonder returned the same year and is continuing to flash away today. Its considered a national treasure and a campaign to make it a UNESCO World Heritage Site is being lobbied.

There is a theory that global warming could disrupt/ reate a thermal situation that would result in constant wind ...warm air rises cooler air rushes in ..seems inevitable really ,especially as the ice caps melt into the seas ....nature is unstoppable,no matter what you feed it ...

The term 'everlasting storm' is slightly misleading as that infers that it is a single storm that has never stopped, when in fact it is a case of the unique geography of the place causing atmospheric conditions that create lots of seperate storms to happen frequently in the one location. Anyways, here's a video of it.

The ending to Lost was pish. I'll just just say that

There was a movie called Slipstream where something like that happened that is really what I was envisioning. It would be as though you kicked the weather into overdrive.