is it possible for lightning to strike in the same place twice?
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The Empire State Building in New York City gets hit by lightning at least 100 times a year.
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Actually, there are 3 kinds of lightning strikes:  Cloud to cloud, Ground to Cloud and Cloud to ground.  So the answer to your question is yes.
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There are a number of cool sites which have real time lightning strikes amoung them are
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No time passes between the two.  The occur at the same time.\n\nIf you are standing a mile away, however, you will see the flash before you hear the sound.  This is, of course, because light is faster than sound.  \n\nYou can use this to estimate how far away a storm is.  The light will reach you almost instantaneously, while the sound will take aproximately five seconds per mile to reach you.  Therefore 15 seconds = 3 miles, etc. \n\nOf course, storms can be large, and the lightnening can happen anywhere within the storm, so it isn't all that accurate for gaging the storm's distance.
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I would say yes for two reasons........ The lightning can run in on the phone line. Secondly, it could run in through your electricity.  Either way, it's best just to stay off the computer, phone, etc during lightning.........
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Yes the electricity sparks can cause an explosion. I read about that a long time ago.
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http://science.howstuffworks.com/lightning.htm
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Both are correct.\n\nDuring a lightning strike, leaders travel up from the ground or object that is about to be struck. At the same time a strike comes from the clouds downward.\n\nWherever the leader is the tallest, the two will meet.\n\nThere are several types of lightning...\nCloud to ground\nGround to cloud\ncloud to cloud\n\nall are correct
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We can see two simultaneously rainbows sometimes. The first one is produced by one internal reflection inside the raindrop, and the second one is produced by two internal reflections.\nTheorically, light can reflect more times inside the raindrop, but I think nobody has seen a third rainbow.
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It is just a kind of proverb... meaning two unlikely events will hardly happen in a row.\n\nBut in fact, it is a very serious misconception! Lightning is VERY likely to strike the same place twice, because it likes to strike high grounded objects and there's not really many of them. Also, lightning ionizes the air, making it easier to breakdown in the same place.
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Both at the same time!, lightning has been photgraphed heading upwards from trees, at the same time leaders head downwards as well, where they meet a lightning strike occours.\n\nThats why when you are out in the open during a storm and feel your hair standing on end - panic and get down, a leader may be leaving your head!
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Yes, it's common for raindrops to collide after they start to fall. The more wind there is the more collisions are likely.
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Stroked by lightning? Are we it's pets? ; )\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning\n"The odds of an average person living in the USA being struck by lightning once in his lifetime has been estimated to be 1:280,000[6]\n\nThe odds of having a friend or family member struck by lightning in the USA in a lifetime has been estimated to 1:3000[6]. "\n\nAlthough it might be smarter not to risk it. Heard of a guy just the other day that got hit while on his motorcycle driving in traffic, didn't live. : (
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Ordinarily, wood is not a conductor of electricity...\n\nBut not for lightning...It strikes the tallest object in an area. If you are under a tree or within its vicinity, if lightning strikes the tree, then it may likely hit you, too, due to its very high voltage (it may reach several thousand or even million volts)...\n\nIf lightning hits you, you will be lucky if you survive...
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There are no uses for lightning I've seen in my research. However, I did discover the Empire State Building has been struck by lightning over 100 times per year, and the Benjamin Franklin has a part in something that was described on the wikipedia about like static electricity only on a much grander scale.
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it happens more frequently then you think. lightening often strikes the same place
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They're simultaneous.  Thunder is the noise made by the lightning.  You may experience the two at different times (always thunder second) because light waves and sound waves travel at different speeds.  They actually occur at the same time, your perception of them causes the distinction.