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I cant sleep and so was just sitting out side watching the thunderstorm that is here right now. All of a sudden a bolt of lightning hits a fence post maybe 40 feet away from me but there was no thunder. If anything it sounded like an electrical device about to burn out. This happend twice in past 30 min and cant figure it out. A strike that close should of caused me to loose all my hearing for a while in addition to the nice after image.

Was it a sound like cloth tearing? I have had really close by lighting, close enough to smell ozone afterwards. But with no thunder at all is really odd. Just be happy your modem still works, I lost mine about a month ago when the same thing happened.

actually it sounded closer to what a taser sounds like when it is fired rather than a clothes tearing sound.

Taser guns fire probes and just tick repetitively, so I don't think that's what you meant. But I know the device you meant, though its name eludes me.

A battery?

A phaser?

Oh, Scotty's favorite little transporter?

(sorry, today's my day to be a smart alec.)

But in all seriousness, Lightening hitting that close ought to have felt like a VERY small...the word escapes me. But you should be freaked.

No, it's like a cattle prod. The device, I mean, not the lightning.

I have had that happen to me once too. However, I did hear the transformer explode which was lovely... except for the loss of hearing for about ten seconds.

I heart sudden concussive blasts of sound. It's much better than continuous noise, like at those 'concerts'. Thunder and it's happenings are much more worth their while. Thou, admittedly, a might less predictable.

Yup. Predictability of thunder is very.. uh .. low.

Not so much as it used to be, mind you. I imagine the fence was probably more than forty feet away, too.

Maybe, when I saw the lightning strike the power pole I was less than eight inches away.

I suppose that was less than pleasant, then, ne?

Actually it was nice, well the lightning and the explosion away. The sound was absolutely dreadful.

To each his own, it is said. I think I'd have swapped the roles.

Oh? How so?

I'd find the explosion and lightning quite less spectacular than the sound they made.