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I saw lightning for the second time in my life during winter a week or so ago, but it was quite regular. |
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02-04-2008 06:19 AM #1Observer
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Snow and Lightening - My vision went OUT
A couple days ago there was a very short snow storm where I live (Denver), and for the first time in my life I experienced a snow storm with lightening. I was walking a friend home and it was just barely coming down. My friend lives about 30 minutes away from me, and halfway to his house the snow started coming down pretty hard. It was pretty beautiful for a while, because the snow was coming down so hard the air looked white, but then all the sudden WAM! - my vision went completely out for a split second, replaced with a blinding white light, and I mean completely out. I couldn't see for a split second. About 10 seconds later I heard some pretty mild thunder, and realized that the bright flash was from lightening! My friend missed the flash because the second it happened he was saving himself from a nasty fall on ice. At first I thought it must of hit extremely close to us because it was SOOO bright, but realized that didn't make sense because from the sound and timing of the thunder, it must of hit quite a ways a way, but at the time it scared the living shit out of me. A group of people who were walking behind us started running around and screaming right after the lightening struck, and that worried me even more. We contenued walking and about 5 minutes later another blinding flash of light enveloped my vision, and this time my friend saw it to. We both got pretty freaked out (my friend didn't believe me when I told him about the first flash, and laughed at how paranoid I got
). Same as the last lightening, the thunder hit about 5-10 seconds later and was not loud at all, but the intensity of the lightening convinced me that we had to get to shelter, and fast. My friends house was only two blocks away, so we hurried as fast as we could to get there. The moment we got to the stairs leading up to his front porch, another bolt hit. This time the flash was not blinding (although it was still VERY bright), and from where I saw the flash it looked like the lightening hit about 10-20ft behind us, and this time the thunder came a second or two later, and it was fucking LOUD! It literally shook the house and the air. We both ran into the house and I stayed there until the sky cleared, which only took about 20 minutes.
Now I don't think we came as close to death as I felt we did at the time. The best explanation I can come up with to explain the blinding flashes of light is that the light from the lightening had reflected off of all the snow on the ground and in the air, which intensified it so much that it was blinding.
What does everyone else think about this? Was I almost hit or was the snow responsible for the strange behavior of the lightening?"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
- Albert Einstein
"We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about."
-Joseph Campbell
"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilisation should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
-Albert Einstein
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02-04-2008 06:23 AM #2Ad absurdum Achievements:
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02-04-2008 09:50 AM #3honk.
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SECOND TIME!?
it doesnt stom much where you live, does it?
Such a shame this has to end, things are out of his command.
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02-04-2008 10:22 AM #4Previously Pensive Achievements:
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One day there was a massive blizzard of a snowstorm that lasted a couple of days, but school was still on. We couldn't drive, so we had to walk. There also happened to be lightning that morning - so it was great fun walking into school. But then one thunderbolt hit no more than half a kilometre away from us - scared the bejesus out of me! When I got to school, it turned out that that thunderbolt had hit the Deputy Headmaster - he was carrying a metal umbrella. Unfortunately he didn't die - he was wearing rubber boots or something. Later that day our school got closed early for the first time in its history.
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02-04-2008 12:37 PM #5
Sometimes when I sit and play CoD4, and a player throws a flashgrenade, it's like my brain shorts for a few seconds, making me think of something completely different, bringing up all kinds of pictures. It feels like it lasts 3 seconds, and then I'm just suddenly back.
Once my body jolted back, like if the flash grenade also gave me an electric shock.
Might be some epileptic stuff. I'm not an epileptic, but when one is deprived of sleep and been playing the same game for way too long, the brain starts acting up. I just hope I won't end up getting a seizure some day :O
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02-04-2008 10:57 PM #6Ad absurdum Achievements:
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In winter. It`s extremely rare during winter.
Originally Posted by The_one_920
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02-04-2008 11:02 PM #7
You need to formulate yourself better Spartiate. I had to scroll up and reread your post like 5 times, before I saw it.
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02-04-2008 11:05 PM #8Ad absurdum Achievements:
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Originally Posted by Marvo
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02-04-2008 11:09 PM #9
Before I saw you in "in the winter". I thought you meant you had only experienced thunderstorms two times in your life as well.
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02-04-2008 11:11 PM #10Ad absurdum Achievements:
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Well don`t skip words when you read Originally Posted by Marvo
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02-05-2008 12:16 AM #11TPV
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Interesting stuff, I don't think I've ever seen lightning in the winter.
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02-05-2008 03:00 AM #12Walking the Plank
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Never seen lightening in the winter, but it could have been a mixture of both.
You do this every fucking time.
No sweat.
No tears.
No guilt.
You do this every fucking time.
http://www.myspace.com/theheroicopening
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02-07-2008 12:45 AM #13TPV
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Well here we are 2 days later with a freak thunderstorm, I can now officially say I have seen lightning in winter. Originally Posted by ThePhobiaViewed
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