Public Service Announcement - What to do in a thunderstorm

[calliste]

A group of people was hit by lightning the other day during one of the summer thunderstorms. After some asking around, it turns out that many people don't know what to do in case a thunderstorm starts and they're outside. Since severe burn wounds or death by lightning are no fun at all, here's a compilation of things to do.

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Comments

[vout]

Okay, the electric field part is new to me... not sure how it works.
Wouldn't you have only one foot on the ground while running?

If you have metal things on you, put them away from you.
The myth busters busted the "If you have piercings you're more likely to be struck by lightning"-myth.

[calliste]

Yeah, I didn't really mean small metal things. I was thinking about hikers with pickaxes and bunches of metal hooks and stuff, or rods for a tent.

[calliste]

Oh, and I'm not a physicist. Maybe there is a specific way to run through a thunderstorm, I mean, if you manage to be in the air ALL the time you'd be totally safe! But I wouldn't risk it.

[scolaro]

Cool, danke. Hab's gleich mal an ein paar Leute weitergegeben, die Samstag Kanu fahren wollen. Just in case. :-)

[calliste]

Ich hab das hier spontan auch an die Pinnwände gehängt, damit die Tester (und Übersetzer) nicht im Günthersburgpark vom Baum und/oder Blitz erschlagen werden. ^^

[deckard_p]

pffft! stadtkinder!

;-P

[calliste]

Hab ich mir auch gedacht. Obwohl ich ja auch ein Stadtkind bin. ^^

[deckard_p]

ja aber du bist "draußen" ja nicht völlig hilflos

BTW [klugscheißmode]
- über blitze weiß man gar nicht sooo viel. vieles ist vermutung
- das problem mit metall ist gar nicht mal so seine affinität zu blitzen, sondern mehr seine tendenz zu schmelzen
- die projezierte fläche der potionalfelder ist ein ganzes stück kleiner als 0,5x0,5 m

[calliste]

Klugscheißer!

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