ment of a direction that all further proceedings shall be stayed, (t. e., that the process may stand,) and it is one of the ways by which a suit may be terminated by an act of the party, as distinguished from a termination of it by judgment, which is the act of the court.
The resulting number will tell you how many miles away you are from where lightning just struck. Five seconds, for example, indicates the lightning struck 1 mile away, and a 10-second gap means the lightning was 2 miles away.
To get a rough estimate of how far away the closest part of the lightning is to you, count the seconds from when you first saw the flash and when you first hear the thunder. Divide that number by 5 and that will tell you about how many miles away it was.