Re: Close lightning strike and strange tick (fwd)

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Original poster: Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxxxx>



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Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 07:44:35 -0500
From: B2 <bensonbd@xxxxxxx>
To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Close lightning strike and strange tick (fwd)

Greetings,
     Several years ago I witnessed a lightning strike 100 feet away through
the back window of a 1973 Nova.  I was looking upward toward the east
anticipating the next bolt of lightning.  It connected with the wavetops
near the beach (Chesapeake Bay near Point Lookout) six times.  It took over
a minute for all six pulses.  There was plenty of time to look around at the
main bolt (greasy yellow and white).  I only heard the click once just
before the first pulse.  A streamer coming off the top of a nearby telephone
pole also caught my eye.

B2

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> Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 11:14:06 -0600 (MDT)
> From: Chip Atkinson <chip@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Close lightning strike and strange tick
>
> Greetings,
>
> I was out walking yesterday with my gf and experienced a really strange
> phenomenon. Lightning struck fairly close to where I was so that the
> thunderclap was about .1 second after the flash.  The amount of time
> separating the flash and boom was long enough that you could notice a
> delay but not really any longer.  My .1 second estimate is based on the
> fastest I could start and stop a stop watch.
>
> But anyway, the most interesting thing was that simultaneous with the
> flash was a weird "tick" sound.  It was kind of like a "plasticky" tick
> like you flipped a plastic dinner plate with your fingernail.  I know
> I wasn't imagining anything since my girlfriend heard the sound too.  She
> also felt that it was pretty much simultaneous with the flash.
>
> Any ideas anyone?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Chip
>
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