and it goes click, click, buzzzzzzzz right before it hits. Now you might be asking how does he know this? I'll answer that for you. I know that because it connected with the ground not 150 feet from me yesterday evening. I was walking to the house from my truck when it struck behind my neighbors house. Since sound travels much slower than light, and I immediately accelerated to light speed, I don't see how I heard the thunder. That loud boom was probably me running through the front door.

 

Ever stand outside and have your hair float like it was on a static charged balloon?

Then 10 seconds later the pool gets a huge bolt in it...

 

RUN RICK, RUN!!!!

 

I didn't know an object that big could move that fast!

Well first, you hafta HAVE hair in order for it to stand on end!



chaikwa.

 

I've had lightning strike about 50 feet from a car I was driving. it danced all around and seemed to last for 5 minutes, but I know it was only for a moment. There was a very loud crack like wood breaking, then a bacon frying sound as it danced.

If lightning struck apool I was in or near, we'd have to ammend the Bible because I would become the second person to walk on water.

 

Maybe the Man upstairs was just giving you a warning shot .... hehehehe

I'd have soiled myself ... cuz I don't even like getting zapped by the car battery let alone lightning.

PISTOL

 

Wait, how do you know I'm balding?

 

was close to a strike years ago walking back from a deer drive, dad hollered "get down" and I listened, 'cause kids did that back then....... well a cedar tree about thirty feet from us got obliterated and then he got up, i just laid there for a few seconds trying to figure out wth just happened. i felt the sensation when he yelled, but he knew what it was fast enough to make a difference.

 

The hairball was going after me on that one DB. I'd like to see one get close to him. All the frizz would be fuzz. (and those things falling behind him would not be charcoal briquet's)

 

I had lighting strike within 20 yards of me TWICE in about a 5 minute period one time. I was in high school at the time. My dad, grandfather and myself had driven my '81 4x4 Chevy half ton up to a little stock tank for some fishing one summer afternoon. One of those afternoon thunderstorms brewed up (which is common during the summer in Texas) and it started to rain. We all decided to sit in the truck and wait it out (they usually don't last very long). As we sat there, lighting struck the ground not 50 feet to the north of my truck. My poor dog that was laying under the truck came THROUGH the window that was rolled halfway down...and there was no stopping him no matter how hard I pushed back. He ended up cowering in the floorboard and not 5 minutes later another strike hit about 20 yards to the west of us. It was a that point that we decided we'd done enough fishing for the day.

 

I've been inderectly hit by it before... I was building fence, and out of a partly cloudy sky, it hit maybe 1/8 th of a mile from me... blew me off the fence...

Now you know what's wrong with me...

 

I was sitting in my car over looking Lake Travis, watching a small outboard slowly heading for the dock. A lighting bolt hit the water about 10 feet behind the boat. Thr boat got up on plane in about 2 seconds. It was funny afterwards but I don't know why the bolt hit the water and not the boat.

 

I was letting my Rottie out to do business before a rain several years ago when it struck the pecan tree she was under. It came down the tree, bounced around several limbs on the tree blowing bark, leaves, and smoke every where, came down the tree to an wire clothesline my neighboor had tied to the tree, burnt it slam off the tree and then went to ground all the while sounding like a 45 going off in each ear repeatedly. Scared the you know what out of me and her both. Fortunately neither was hurt but it was quite a eye opening event so to speak.

A few years ago, my cousin was washing down the barn floor when the lightning struck the cast iron drain out in the field below the barn. It came up the drain line, knocked him unconciuos and killed a 350 pound sow immediately. It can be some bad stuff.

 

Proof that when it comes to lighting two feet are better than four.

 

I was standing in my carport in Spring Lake, NC watching a storm when lightning struck about 15 feet away leaving the grass somewhat charred and smoking. Of course I ran back inside in desperate need of a change of pants. That's the closest I've been and would like to keep it that way.