pic: Not the end of the Rainbow, but ....

[KenWittlief]

Personally I like huge thunderstorms. I assume everyone allready knows this: sound travels at approximately 1000 feet per second. When you see lightning and start counting off the seconds till you hear the thunder, you can measure how far away the lightning bolt hit the ground.

1 second is about one city block away. Half a second is 500 feet. When you get one of those you know something right in your neighborhood got hit!

If you see the direction of the lightning you might be able to go out after the storm and find the spot where it hit. Sometimes its easy to find, things like a tree with half the limbs and bark blown off one side!