What's the closest you've ever been to lightning?
What's the closest you've ever been to lightning?
20 to 30 feet? A tree outside my house got zapped when I was about 10.
Eh, more like 60 feet. Pythagorean Theorum and all that.
Last edited by oddler; 06-01-2007 at 10:56 PM.
10-15 feet
I could feel the electricity
Man, that hurt!
I was like 5 ft away today...As I was skateboarding in a parking lot some car got zapped...I thought it was gonna explode but I got lucky
My hypothesis is the godlyness of the skateboard move I pulled became its own entity and summoned the lightning forth... It was actually pretty sun w/ a bit of clouds then this lightning came randomly and then it rained like hell...I live in Boston btw
i would say a few kilometers at least
because i have no clue.
I've never actually seen lightning hit anything so obviously I've never been that close really.
Like...30 metres. I was enclosed in a building though so ho humm.
Sephiro this here.
Our roof was struck once, all the TVs shorted out
Put it this way I was in like Louisiana and like all of a sudden it started raining and I was like iono 10 feet away from a tree that got struck and 5 seconds later I was 75 feet away from a burning tree
A couple of feet, I guess. It’s probably an exaggeration, but it did feel that close. The strike also startled me into dropping a box of <a href="http://www.coca-cola.com/">Coca-Cola</a> cans, and I even ended up running back in to the storm to save the few cans that had rolled away. I’m pretty much one of the bravest people I know. I think that I win less awards than I deserve, to be honest.
3 feet. I was next to the window seeing the rain when a powerpole next to my house and actually 3 feet away from the window was zapped.
I could feel the electricity all over my body, and it hurted A LOT
And the block was without electricity three days
Me too.
Not lighting, but I once held on to an electric fence without realising, and it was only when I touched a pony's nose and she bolted down the field out of shock that I noticed and it really hurt.
My friend found it hilarious
(It wasn't a strong electric fence, just to stop people from nicking the ponies and to stop the ponies jumping it.)