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.
Find out how close it is. A better indicator that lightning is going to come near you is to count the seconds between a distant lightning strike and the explosion of thunder that follows. Sound travels at, roughly, 1 mile every 5 seconds. So, if you get to 10 seconds you know the lightningâs 2 miles away.