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!
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Tonight it was like that but passed us and gone… I tried to catch the lightining too.. beautiful photograph. Thank you, Love, nia
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Hi Nia, thank you! Stay safe, be well my friend. 😊
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From the time you see the lightning flash, count the number of seconds before you hear the sound. Five seconds equals one mile distance.
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Right, that’s roughly what it was, David. Very scary stuff, you could be evaporated!
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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.
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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.
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Great shot! Wow, I know how scary that is. It happened to me once with the strike about 200 feet away.
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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!
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