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Originally Posted by Mike P
Any idea what thunder sounds like when lightning hits something about 100' away?   |
As a teenager, fishing on a Kansas farm pond when lightning hit the only tree around, which happened to be 30 feet to my right. It was a tiny scrub of a tree about 8 feet tall.
Funny thing with lightning strikes that close, all the hair on your arms and back of your neck seems to stand on end a second or so, before the near blinding flash and deafening crack of thunder.
Luckily growing up in Kansas, I knew when your outdoors and you feel your hair stand on end, you promptly "belly flop" in the grass, so all I got was scared "spittless". With the only thing around that "used to be" taller than me gone, I ran/crawled the 1/4 mile back to my truck and called it a day.