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I was riding my bike and all of a sudden a storm rolled in. I was getting close to my house but I started to feel the air get really fuzzy and the hairs on my arms started standing up. The air smelled like ozone and things really didn't feel right.
I immediately stopped and got off my bike and laid down. Lightning hit a post near me instead.
Holy shit
The hairs standing up and fuzzy air is the static electricity on the ground building up.
It's fucking amazing.
It was wild because there I was thinking bike = faraday cage given that the tires are insulators.
That's amazing! I've always wondered, what does a lightning strike sound like when you're that close?
Like someone dropped a dump truck from 50 feet directly onto pavement. Big boom you feel in your chest.
Can't attest for them, but it sounded like a straight up explosion when lightning struck in my yard once. It hit a pole I believe, but nothing was damaged (except the router that got super-fried...) so maybe it would aound different depending on how it hits and what it passes through.