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The bright flashes of lightning you see streaking across the sky are usually about 300 feet long, but some very powerful bolts may be over five miles long. And lightning bolts can streak to the ground from eight miles in the air, or leap between two clouds 20 miles apart. A lightning bolt may look more than a few feet wide, but
