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.
For every 4 seconds between the flash and the rumble, the thunderstorm is 1 mile away. Here is a slow motion video of lightning. Watch closely and you will see the step leaders heading down from the cloud. These are rarely visible and last only a few thousandths of a second.