A car/train/plane/etc is a time-machine... (car - literally, in "that" movie) - if you walked the distance, how long would it take...?
and did you know that you hear the "sound" of lightning in reverse, in most cases... think about it... light/electricity travels considerably faster than sound, so the point where the "arc" is formed is the point of "creation of the sound", but as it strikes the ground (in many cases) faster than the sound from the creation point, and this could have been miles up, you hear the strike point first...
"I was here at the dawn of time, and I will be here at the end of time, but not in this form..." - the philosophy of Kennneth Stewart, circa 1981
"Time is relative, lunch time doubly so..." - Douglas Adams (rip)
I really should be sectioned, under the Mental Health Act...