On Tuesday, February 14, 2023 at 11:50:24 PM UTC-8, Vasileios Spiliopoulos wrote:
plateshutoverlock <blinking...@gmail.com> Wrote in message:r
Years ago, I was watching a rather mild, low activity thunderstorm from my sliding glass door which wasclosed. I started to hear a faint 'zipper' noise in the air which grew louder and louder. At it's peak,the zipper noise descended in tone until it
was individual pops, about 3 or 4 a second and then alightning bolt hit one block away, and the zipper/pops ceased. This is something that people often witness during thunderstorms, especially when they are hiking or mountain climbing, but this was the
first time I experienced it first hand.
I'd say you are lucky to not be hit by it
I was indoors, so my chances of being hit by it were extremely slim. If it did hit my building, I likely would've lost some electronics.
The weird thing is, is that this was the first time I experienced this, and I have been through countless bad lightning storms beforehand. I did hear lightning bolts make a "zip" noise as they flashed overhead before the thunder, but this was different.
And what made the whole thing even stranger was the buzzing/zipped noise started inside my ground floor apartment, with all of the windows and doors closed. The zippy lead up for the strike also lasted quite a while because I was trying to find out where
it was coming from, thinking I had a faulty appliance somewhere.
Obviously the e-field in the area was very high, and a ground "feeler" might have been close to or perhaps even on/in my building to cause this buzzing inside a closed apartment, but this is the first (and last) time I had experienced this.
The house I grew up in had a lightning rod that got struck a few times, and while the thunderous explosion was deafening, there was no buzzing noise of any kind before hand to indicate the strike was about to happen.
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