-=> Quoting Mike Roberts to Nancy Backus on 09-15-12  16:43 <=-

 -> Once, when visiting one of my sisters, the house was hit by lightning,
 -> and the electric charge just went straight through the house.  We could
 -> feel a tingling and then it was gone, no harm done to any of us or the
 -> structure...  No warning, just that the strike was right there...

 MR> I wondered, because I think I have confessed this to You before. When
 MR> it is really hot and humid and we don't have air conditioning, it is
 MR> not surprising to find me outside in my tank top and shorts putzing
 MR> around or even sitting in a lawn chair in the rain. However if I hear
 MR> thunder or see lightning, I am outta there. Sometimes a storm seems
 MR> innocent enough, but then blamo, lightning and thunder. I always
 MR> wondered if one could tell if the charge was gathering or not.

One thing you can do, is to count the seconds between the seen lightning
and the heard thunder.  There's something like 5 seconds per mile away,
so you can actually track how close the storm is really getting.  Often
we in the city will see a storm moving west to east, north or south of
us, we may get some of the rain, but the lightning never gets all that
close to us.  Up at the Pond, if there's lightning anywhere around, I
get out of the water pronto... but one could wait it out a little longer
when one is on land...  :)

ttyl         neb

... It doesn't work, but it looks pretty.

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