Therefore, the lightning is approximately one kilometer distant for every 3 seconds that elapse between the visible flash and the first sound of thunder (or one mile for every 5 seconds). In the same five seconds, the light could have traveled the Lunar distance four times.
Fort Plain, New York. Fort Plain is a village in Montgomery County, New York, United States. As of the 2010 census, the village population was 2,322. The village is named after a fort built during the American Revolution at the junction of the Mohawk River and its tributary Otsquago Creek.
This small town has a matching-sized case load. Speeders on I-90 are the main concern in this court. A small town of around four thousand people near the western edge of Schoharie County (to the south). It was established out of part of the Town of Canajoharie in 1798, and includes the village of Fort Plain.