Holy crap!

[Russ]

Hey, when you see lightening and less then a second later, you hear thunder, does that mean the lightening is close? Damn, it was LOUD too!

Russ, NCNE

 

[Pyxis]

<< Hey, when you see lightening and less then a second later, you hear thunder, does that mean the lightening is close? Damn, it was LOUD too!

Russ, NCNE >>



LOL

I hope your herd doesn't go down. /knock on wood

 

[rocmonster]

I think the sound travels @ 750 feet a second (at sea level) so its 750 feet away for every second you can count between the flash and the thunder. Same thing going on here in NYC...

 

[Russ]

Pyxis,

That's exactly what I was thinking about.

Russ, NCNE

 

[Russ]

HMM...the next one was bout three seconds, and the last one about seven. I think it's just passing through.

Russ, NCNE

 

[GoldenBear]

Yes, so what you do now is go outside holding a metal rod. That'll make the lightning go away.

 

[yobarman]

Take the time between the flash and the thunder and divide by 5...and you get how many miles away it is...so i hear..

 

[Pyxis]

Did you invest in a good UPS?

 

[Russ]

Pyxis,

I have one on the stats server.

Russ, NCNE

 

[AznMaverick]

whoa...it wuz like that last week here in Hawaii...it wuz pretty k00l since it was the first time i've ever been throgh something like taht...the thunder felt like a small earthquake...

 

[Hanpan]

Time to shut down important electrical devices ie computer. I always heard that every second between lightning and thunder is about a kilometer.

So under a second means the storm is basically right over your house

 

[Pyxis]

I thought that every second between the lightening and thunder corresponds to a mile.

 

[Azraele]

Sounds like you've got a nasty storm in your area. Had one here not too long ago, some of the crashes of thunder were so loud, I felt sure the windows would shatter, right along with my eardrum.

Better unplug, least you suffer the fate of the newspaper office here. They lost a server...well, it's a wondows machine acting like a server on a mac network.

 

[Moonbeam]

The speed of sound at sea level is about 742 MPH, which looks to be about .2 miles a second, or just over a 1000 feet away for your 1 sec bolt. Isn't there a pot of gold where it strikes.

 

[paruhd0x]

Moonbeam, no thats rainbows.

 

[narzy]

oh crap!


sorry about that russ I was playing with my new ray gun and I guess I got a little carried away...

 

[IBhacknU]

<< whoa...it wuz like that last week here in Hawaii... >>

yea, I noticed that too. Lightning is rather uncommon here.

 

[nEoTeChMaN]

I think GOD was trying to kill you.

 

[narzy]

neo:

I was not!

 

[Moonbeam]

Uh, paruhd0x, that can't be right; rainbows don't strike.

 

[Doctorweir]

Speed of sound = 334 Meters per second => Every second counted = 334 Meters
Divide count by 3 = Kilometers, divide by 5 = Miles...have a nice thunderstorm...

Next rain here in Korea is announced for June 23rd...:Q

 

[DevilsAdvocate]

Hurry! Run outside and make fun of the little baby Jesus!

And hold this casserole dish...

 

[IBhacknU]

<< Next rain here in Korea is announced for June 23rd >>

Are the meteorologist that good there?

 

[puffpio]

One time I was next to a window and it was raining and the lighting + thunder was instantanous it was that close! It made me jump from my seat it was so loud. But I was playing Quake 1 over a LAN so couldn't stop playing.. (LAN parties are so addicting) (this was in a computer lab at a university)

Eventually the system admins put up a sign saying &quot;No game palying in PC lab&quot; but we ignored it and just came in after midnight. Then used their NT administration powers to disallow the 'run' menu and adding thigs to stat menu or desktop and windows explorer. so basically it was impossible to install.

everytime they stopped us we would circumvent it the next day.

Finally they shut out almost all the holes..for about a week we had to LAN quake...but then some smart guy made a word macro that called command.com and we were free again!!

We just played that one map where the boss is in single player...lava in the center..2 levels to run on...1 elevator

I remember running on the lower level tossing grenades up to the upper level as I ran by. and tossing grenades down the elevator shaft and seeing my frag count go up

 

[Tiger]

The weather service boys who do our storm spotter certification classes every year say 1 sec/mile. If your close enough to hear thunder, your close enough to get hit.

I was out chasing a particularly nasty boomer one night and was parked on a hill. 200 yds away was an old 60-70ft cottonwood tree. Big flash/bang, the tree exploded. My ears we're ringing for a half hour after.