MH>RN> When I was a child, we were taught to count the seconds between the   
   MH>RN> strike and the thunder. I got pretty good at it, but it was easier for m   
   MH>RN> to count backwards than forwards. That way I knew I was within a   
   MH>RN> millisecond of the actual strike. It's when counting those seconds   
   MH>RN> forward and you don't get to 2, I worry about. We had one a few days ago   
   MH>RN> that was very close, but didn't even make my UPS yell "Uncle", but scare   
   MH>RN> the bejesus out of my daughter's cat and me. I didn't get to count. (-:   
      
   MH>I still use that method.  Counting the seconds after the lightning to know h   
   MH>many miles away the strike/storm is located.   
      
   MH>If you can't count a second, consider it to be right overhead.  Those are   
   MH>typically the ones that scare the *#$@ out of me and rumble the entire   
   MH>house/windows.   
      
   MH>- Mark   
      
   That reminds me about when I sent to Little Rock Arkansas for a Seminar   
   at a VA Mental Institution. We were housed in a small building outside   
   the main building. There was a storm and got the *#$@ out of mewhnt   
   Lighetining struck a tree 25 feet from my room window. That strike   
   was LOUD AND BRIGHT!!!   
   Needless to say the tree did not survive   
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