I was recently videotaping on Sanibel Island in Florida. Looking at the video later, I saw something that I had not noticed while taping. In one frame when I was photographing distant lightning, a streamer of spark about three feet long can be seen leaping upwards from a nearby car. Luckily, this spark did not connect to the lightning bolt, but it showed that the potential was there for me to have a much closer experience with lightning.

This experiment is closely related to my close call with the lightning. It will give you an idea about why that spark jumped upwards. You will need

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