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    What's the closest you've ever been to lightning?

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    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.
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    10-15 feet
    I could feel the electricity
    Man, that hurt!

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    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

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    i would say a few kilometers at least

    because i have no clue.

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    I've never actually seen lightning hit anything so obviously I've never been that close really.

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    Like...30 metres. I was enclosed in a building though so ho humm.

    Sephiro this here.

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    Our roof was struck once, all the TVs shorted out

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jessweeee♪ View Post
    Our roof was struck once, all the TVs shorted out
    Our house got hit once, and it fried our computer.

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    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

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Meat Puppet View Post
    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.
    I think it was courage not bravery, you were probably scared.

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    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


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    Quote Originally Posted by Jess View Post
    I've never actually seen lightning hit anything so obviously I've never been that close really.
    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.)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pyromaniac View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Meat Puppet View Post
    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.
    I think it was courage not bravery, you were probably scared.
    What's the difference?


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