Just an FYI for all you great Guys n' Gals

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OK...this is a link to a story I just read.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/womans-close ... html?nhp=1

Now, If ever in a natural setting and there is lightning, to simplify:

1.) Seek the lowest ground no matter what.


2.) If there is some sort of cover like a drainage pipe or culvert under something, get under it

3.) Avoid Standing water at all costs

4.) If possible get in something like a wood shelter or house or something that puts insulation between you and the gound

5.) If a car is nearby, get in it and do not touch the metal

6. Do not get under trees.

These people were in a very high place and open. Just because it is stone does not mean it is safe. Stone = Ground. Lightning strikes the ground all the time. Lightning also strikes trees.

Be safe y'all

Woodsman zkydz

Feel free to add your comments...safety for everyone.

Indeed, that's why both tornado shelters and fallout shelters are located in the basements of houses.

Wow, pretty intense. Thank you for posting. One of my friends was also struck by lightning four years ago. She was bringing horses inside from a field when the storm hit. The only reason she survived is because she had thick rubber souls and the strike was shared by the three horses she was holding so the impact was spread and they all survived. But lightning is the highest cause of death for horses in the field. It is brutal. I was within two hundred yards of a strike once. It was the most powerful thing I have ever experienced.

I have been in every type of weather known to mankind. EXCEPT a tornado. I am not scared of any weather EXCEPT a tornado...
Those things are crazy.

My Son's Mother and Father in Law were in their house.

A tornado touched down, smack in their living room while they were watching TV. Blew the house out....bounced out and hit a few other spots as it skipped around.

The in-laws? Minor injuries. Even blew out a support beam that landed on the Mother in law in such a way that it bridged across the floor and back across her lap....just a few bruises. Knocked the father in law down from the force, but nothing bad.

But, we used to play in the rain in Florida and the Bahamas all the time. Even if thundering. But one flash and we went in real quick. You could tell if it was getting close. There was only one time I saw lighting close to me. It was on the other side of the house across the street. That instant flash/boom. No delay. So...that's bad stuff indeed.

Thank you for the advice.

The OP must live in Florida.

Spent a great deal of time in Florida (Jacksonville, St. Augustine, Tampa, Orlando...bootcamp....uggghhh), the Bahamas and Georgia.

Since you seem familiar with Fla....Ever see the lines of wet road and dry road across the highway?

Can set your watch to afternoon rainstorms during the right season.

Seeing rain with no clouds in the sky. (we called it "The Devil is beating his wife...)

Deluges that are so fierce that with 30 minutes of rain, there can be flooding because of the high water table. The ground is only about 3' on average above the water table and a lot of ground is just mushy in many places. There are some higher areas, but not many and not by much.

Why must we live on a planet where electricity shoots down from the sky...

Why not? It's really an essential part of the ecosystem. And it does strange things if you look at the weather research done on the ISS. They just had a video posted recently on high altitude, exotic lightning that flies around through and between clouds (We called it heat lighting in the south....saw it every afternoon. They've seen even more exotic version of that in really high altitudes. Lighting that actually shoots upwards.

Think of all the static energy interacting with the upper atmosphere where the 'shielding' is less and interacts with solar particles and magnetic fields in completely different ways than down here.

Strange colors, crazy ball lighting that gets crazier up there.

It's wild.