Safety: Lightning Home: greenlightwrite.com featuring
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Safety: Lightning Home: greenlightwrite.com featuring
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Family Safety Great Outdoors Travel I hope everyone knows not to stand under a tree during a lightning storm or be the tallest thing standing on an open field because it increases the odds of being struck by lightning. The other tips on this page were given to me by the Safety Committee of Amelia Island Plantation, Amelia Island, Florida. Thank you Jennifer Boswell, Bill Taylor and Lori Barnes.
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1. The safest place to be during an electrical storm is in a house or building. The metal plumbing and wiring in the walls of the building form a protective barrier. Therefore it is important to remember to stay away from electrical appliances, plumbing fixtures, etc. 2. Lightning can strike telephone and electrical wires and travel into your house, through your phone cord, into your telephone, to the handset, and SHOCK you! Cordless phones are not dangerous because there is no physical connection to the wires. 3. While cars are a very safe place to be, it is not the tires that protect you! This is a very common misconception. It is actually the metal that is surrounding you that affords the protection. This is due to something called the Skin Effect which says that electricity, like lightning, will travel only on the surface of enclosed metal objects. So while your car may be hit by lightning, as long as you stay inside, you are safe. This is of course provided that you have a metal car that is not a convertible. Incidentally, your tires would have to be about a mile thick and made of solid rubber to afford you adequate protection. 4. About 100 people die each year in the United States as the result of being struck by a lightning bolt. 5. According to a study by Dr. Martin A Uman, in his 1971 book, Understanding Lightning, 29 percent of those killed were farmers. This compares to 19 percent being golfers, and nearly 15 percent were fisherman. Joggers were not mentioned in the study.
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