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Mesophilic:
Was out hunting yesterday and headed back to the truck.  I climbed over a barbed wire fence and put my bow and quiver in the truck. Started to walk around to the driver side and heard a huge section of the fence buzzing like a huge arc welder.  It lasted for about a half second, just long enough to get my attention and look over, and then a huge boom of thunder about made me come out of my skin.   Never saw a flash of lightning, even though the boom was extremely close.  Felt like a bomb went off very nearby. 

I hopped in the truck and that was when it dawned on me,  if I had stopped to take a leak, or anything that would have been a 60 second delay, I would have been touching that fence when it happened.  Thank goodness for small miracles.

archeryrob:
Yea that is why you feel lightning even when it doesn't hit you. Lightning is coming down from the clouds and reaching up from the ground to connect. You have an upsurge where the ground potential is reaching up to meet the charge in the sky. The bolt is where it connects. You witnessed the upsurge pushing through the barbed wire. It probably wouldn't have hurt you, but it likely would have scared the she-it out of you.  ;D

We sat in the garage on one rough storm watching it as a family. My daughter kept putting her leg against the garage door metal track. I told her to stop and she did it still to spite me. An upsurge shocked her and scared her Chitless! I just said "Would you like to listen to me now?"  ;D

Zuma:
Strange, wonder why you didn't see the flash. ??? ???
Zuma

BowEd:
I can relate here a few times in the past.It really opens ones eyes to realize the power that's there.The boom and flash instantly together is so close it vibrates your chest and almost lifts your body weight off the ground from the concussion.You are fortunate.
It does'nt need metal from the ground either.I cut up for firewood trees killed that are charred here from lightning strikes.Ground sod blew right off shallow roots from trees hit from the travel of the electricity.Bare spots in ground with no trees around seen where nothing grows for months.No pests doing this it's burnt.

Eric Krewson:
I saw lightning hit in the front yard at night when I was a kid. It formed into a ball about the size of basketball and rolled downhill into the woods.

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