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 23:46:36 -0500
From: Bert Hickman <bert.hickman@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Close lightning strike and strange tick (fwd)

Hi Chip,

I suspect that you need to be close enough for your brain to "hear" the 
EM pulse, yet far enough away so that it can be heard before the crash 
of the thunder. For the case I experienced, the delay between the flash 
and the crash was perhaps a tenth of a second, maybe even less. I have 
never heard any clicks for more distant lightning.

Bert

High Voltage list wrote:
> 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)
>>
>> 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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