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Old 27-10-2007, 06:28 PM
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Look at all that Energy going to waste. but I pretty much garantee that if the flash and the bang are simultanious, you in for a bad day....
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Old 28-10-2007, 11:43 AM
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thats true shawn ..when I was about 14 a friend and I were walking along in (sunshine ).. though there was a storm approaching ..I remember a blinding white flash/boom to my imediate right..we both freaked out and ran into each other knocking both of us down.. there was a guy over the road looking down on us just In stiches of laughter..I have no idea how close it was I'm thinking VERY ..lucky the rain hadn't started and the ground was still dry or
who knows what might of been the outcome.
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Old 28-10-2007, 12:07 PM
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The speed of sound is 344 m/s (1238 km/h) or 1128 ft/s (769 mph) . . .

. . . where the medium of transmission is air and the temperature around the 20ºC mark. Hence, for rough calculations, 3 seconds between flash and boom is one kilometre to the source. 4.5 seconds gives you about a mile. These are very rough but usually enough for us poor sods who have trouble judging time in such small packets to guesstimate the distances.

Of course there are many variables. My rule of thumb is that if you hear the 'tearing' sound often associated with lightning then it's too bloomin' close.
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