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What is the closest you have been to a bolt of lightening?
I was once so close that it looked like a piece of bacon that slowely dissappeared! One of the most amazing things I have ever seen!! Luckily I was in a car at the time!
7 Answers
- ?Lv 61 decade agoFavorite Answer
This past September my husband and I were visiting family in South Carolina and just the 2 of us were out driving, sight seeing, when the sky turned an eery black, and a bolt of lightening struck the roof of the car on the passenger side where I was. It sent a resonating jolt through my entire body and left a scorch mark on the car. Another time I was in my early teens and with a group of friends inter-tubbing down a river when lightening hit the water, we all felt that jolt. Thanks for rubber tires!
- Anonymous1 decade ago
sitting in my nans kitchen at about 8 years old all of a sudden there was a loud bang and the chimney into the kitchen range cracked from the top to the bottom and stopped just before it ended in the fire itself. I just started shaking and crying. It turned out lightening had bounced from next doors pole in through our kitchen window. scary stuff!
- 1 decade ago
About a foot away from a bolt that hit the concrete next to me, outside of my house. The burn mark is still there twenty years later.
- BunnyLv 41 decade ago
I was 2 foot away in the house, but it blew a big hole in the wall, my mother was on the porch outside, the lightning hit a metal swing, jumped to the dog chain and hit a small motor that my mother was only inches away from. she is hard of hearing in one ear, and had a bad rash from the lightning stike. it was a very scary moment.
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
About 40 feet, once when lightning hit the top of a nearby telephone pole, and another time when it struck my roof antenna (no damage).
- A.V.R.Lv 71 decade ago
Struck the window below which I was asleep. I slept through it. Woke up covered in shattered glass.