I remember this clearly, the lightning bolt was roughly one mile north of me. The time between the strike and the sound reaching me was nearly instantaneous. Bang, scary! 😂
It struck near Turtlehead Peak.
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We rarely get thunderstorms going directly overhead here, but when they do, it is something!
Tonight it was like that but passed us and gone… I tried to catch the lightining too.. beautiful photograph. Thank you, Love, nia
Hi Nia, thank you! Stay safe, be well my friend. 😊
From the time you see the lightning flash, count the number of seconds before you hear the sound. Five seconds equals one mile distance.
Right, that’s roughly what it was, David. Very scary stuff, you could be evaporated!
It’s so bogus to quote the odds of getting struck by lightning. One in a million? Yeah, if you live in the Sahara … but if you’re on a golf course in the middle of a storm then the odds are more like 1 in 3,000. Your home has an even better chance (one in 200) so it’s best not to be in the shower, or on the computer when there is lightning.
I totally agree, David, stay out of the shower! Stay away from the windows too, I’ve read about a bolt going through a home at some point before. It’s so rare to see lightning here except in Monsoon season.
Great shot! Wow, I know how scary that is. It happened to me once with the strike about 200 feet away.
Wow, that was damn close!! That had to be a flash/bang at the same time. At my old home in Michigan, lightning struck a pine tree about that distance from the house. We were safe, but the tree was literally blown apart!