Re: Close lightning strike and strange tick (fwd)

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Original poster: Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxxxx>



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Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:33:52 -0600 (MDT)
From: Chip Atkinson <chip@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Close lightning strike and strange tick (fwd)

Wow.  That's really weird.  Do you think that it was so close that the
crash of thunder obliterated any click?  

Yesterday I talked with the other person that was there at the time.  She
said she heard the same click and also heard a similar click associated
with another close strike.

I wonder if there have to be certain conditions to create the click rather
than it happening all the time.

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, High Voltage list wrote:

> Original poster: Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:04:50 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Mike <megavolts61@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Close lightning strike and strange tick (fwd)
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> I nearly got hit by lightning once about 15 years ago.   I was working on my car under the shade of a tree and it started to sprinkle....I happened to be standing on a sheet of cardboard I'd laid down to keep grease and oil from ruining my grass.   I was putting my tools away when the lighting hit my car...about five feet away.   I heard no clicks or anything prior to crapping my pants (kidding),  but there was certainly a good shockwave because it stunned a bird in the tree above me.  
>   Mike
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