On 23/08/2015 12:45, Brian Gaff wrote:
I quite like thunderstorms, and my few close calls have not put me off,
after all if its your day to die, etc. The only issue I had is that now in
later life I have tinnitus, and blame the high db of thunder less than 10
feet away which left me semi deaf for 30 minutes.
Not to be recommended, but then one would not expect it just walking down
the road.
Brian


You were lucky not to be caught by stray ground current. When I was
standing by our back door, and the house at the end of the garden had
its chimney and back door taken out, about 50 yards away. And that
certainly made us all jump!