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How to protect against lightning in summer thunderstorm

In order to avoid lightning and reduce the occurrence of lightning accidents, it is necessary for us to understand some lightning protection knowledge.
When people go out, they must pay attention to listening to, watching or surfing the Internet at any time to check the local weather forecast and judge whether there is lightning weather. In case of lightning weather, you should quickly hide in buildings protected by lightning protection devices or deep caves. The car is also an ideal place to avoid lightning.
If you cannot hide in lightning protected buildings in the wilderness, you should stay away from tall and isolated objects such as trees, power poles and chimneys, and should not stay near iron fences, metal clotheslines, overhead metal bodies and railways. It is not suitable to enter low buildings such as isolated huts and sentry boxes in the field without lightning protection devices. Keep away from transmission and distribution lines, overhead telephone cables, etc. Try to avoid some small areas that are particularly vulnerable to lightning strikes, such as rock faults, large rock cracks and ground exits of buried pipelines.
In case of lightning and thunder overhead, if you can’t find a suitable lightning protection place, you should find a low-lying place to reduce the center of gravity and the contact area between the human body and the ground as much as possible. You can squat down, put your feet together, put your hands on your knees, bend your body forward and temporarily avoid. Don’t lie on the ground. If you put on a raincoat, the lightning protection effect will be better. If there are many people, don’t gather together, or lean together hand in hand.
Do not use metal pointed umbrellas in open spaces, do not carry shovel and other farm implements on shoulders. When you are sitting down to protect the thunder, you should put metal objects on the shoulders and put them away from meters away, especially the metal frames glasses.
Do not use mobile phones in the wild. It is forbidden to swim and engage in other water sports and operations. It is not suitable to carry out outdoor ball games, climbing, riding and other sports. It is not suitable to drive motorcycles and bicycles. Do not run wildly when thunder strikes.
When lightning comes, it is safer to hide indoors, but this is also relatively outdoor. If you don’t pay attention to taking measures indoors, you will not only be directly attacked by spherical lightning, but also be infringed by indirect lightning.
Therefore, in case of thunderstorm, be sure to close the doors and windows indoors. Keep away from metal doors and windows, metal curtain walls or places with power sockets as far as possible. Don’t stand on the balcony or barefoot on the mud or cement ground. It’s best to pad non-conductive items under your feet or sit on wooden chairs. Do not approach or touch any metal pipelines, including water pipes, heating pipes, gas pipes, etc.
If there is no lightning protection device in the house, it is best not to use any household appliances indoors, including TV, computer, radio, telephone, washing machine, microwave oven and other household appliances. It is best to unplug all power lines, network cables and telephone lines.
To sum up, lightning protection knowledge can be summarized as follows:
Don’t panic in case of lightning. Stay away from isolated metal bodies,
Cut off the power supply and lower the height. Don’t be a lightning needle.