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.
When you see a flash of lightning, start counting the seconds - one, two, three, four, until you hear. the roar of thunder. Then divide the number you get by five to determine how many miles away it is. This will give you a rough estimate of how far away the center of the storm is.