Yeah, I get paranoid if I have to cross an open area and a storm is approaching. Most storms pass in 30 mins... unlike that crazy one this summer, which i wouldn't even dare go outside in! Even still, you can get lighting strike ahead and behind the storm for kilometers, such an incident almost got me on one occasion. Wasn't raining, no warming other than thunder in the distance. So it's quite true if you can hear the thunder you're already within striking distance!