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.
Fact: Lightning can strike many miles away from the thunderstorm. If storms are in your area, but skies. happen to be clear above you, that certainly does not imply you are safe from lightning. Though these. âBolts from the Blueâ are infrequent, lightning strikes 10 to 15 miles away from the storm are not out of the.