Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Lightning Safety Awareness Week: June 22-28, 2008 (Part II)
FROM: WEATHER CHANNEL
Lightning Facts:
* The temperature of the lightning channel can reach five times the temperature of the surface of the sun for a split second!
* The United States gets hit by about 30 million lighting strokes per year!
* There is about a 10% chance that lightning will strike within 100 yards of you during a year!
Lightning Myths:
* Rubber tires on cars and bicycles. It's not the rubber, it's the metal of the car that protects you. Bicycles and motorcycles are totally unsafe.
* Tennis shoes. Offer virtually no protection as insulation for lightning coming at you from above or passing toward you through the ground.
* Rain. Lightning can strike you even if it isn't raining.
* Trees. Being under a tree is one of the worst places to be. Lightning may strike the tree and carry down its trunk -- shocking you by "flashing over" from the trunk or going down into the roots and soil and into your feet.
Lightning Facts:
* The temperature of the lightning channel can reach five times the temperature of the surface of the sun for a split second!
* The United States gets hit by about 30 million lighting strokes per year!
* There is about a 10% chance that lightning will strike within 100 yards of you during a year!
Lightning Myths:
* Rubber tires on cars and bicycles. It's not the rubber, it's the metal of the car that protects you. Bicycles and motorcycles are totally unsafe.
* Tennis shoes. Offer virtually no protection as insulation for lightning coming at you from above or passing toward you through the ground.
* Rain. Lightning can strike you even if it isn't raining.
* Trees. Being under a tree is one of the worst places to be. Lightning may strike the tree and carry down its trunk -- shocking you by "flashing over" from the trunk or going down into the roots and soil and into your feet.
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