With thunder and lightning best to go indoors or avoid being in exposed areas...people are 70% water and conductive to electric shock. Lightning has hit whole herds of animals and each one "schocked" each other and say a 100 sheep perished together. The lag time between the lightning and thunder can also be used to find the distance of the thunderhead from the person...each second may be 1000 feet. Often severe rain and/or hail will come down soon after the first few sounds of thunder.
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Wow, this is amazing stuff. I didn't quite get the lag time bit (...each second may...) One would think that people who live in these areas would ALL have basements in which to take refuge while the tornadoes pass. Perhaps they do. I hope they do. I rather go through earthquakes any day vs. tornadoes.
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