Steps to Follow During a Thunderstorm

Here are a few steps you should follow to take care of yourself and your loved ones during the time of lightning.

During Rainy season, lightning becomes an extremely common phenomenon. However, severe lightning can sometimes even cause life threats, so it is important to know the best safety measures you should take during lightning. Today, we’ll talk about the steps you should follow to take care of yourself and your loved ones during the time of lightning.

 

What Do You Need to Know?

 

  • No Place outside is safe when thunderstorms are in the area!!

  • If you hear thunder, lightning is close enough to strike you, the first thing you should do is take shelter indoors.

  • When you hear thunder no matter how close or far, immediately move to a safe shelter, a substantial building, a metal-topped vehicle with windows up.

  • Cars are considered the safest place during the time of lightning.

  • Stay in a safe shelter at least until 30 minutes after you hear the last sound of thunder.

 

Indoor Lightning Safety

 

  • Stay away from corded phones or simply disconnect the line, computers and other electrical equipment that put you in direct contact with electricity.

  • The best advice is to plug out all the electric equipment from the electricity board.

  • Avoid areas with plumbing, including sinks, baths and other areas with pipes.

  • Stay away from windows and doors, and stay away from balconies and porches.

  • Do not lie on concrete floors, and do not lean against concrete walls, as the iron inside can attract lightning.

 

Risk Reduction Tips

 

If you are stuck outside with no safe shelter anywhere nearby the following actions may reduce your risk:

 

  • Immediately get down from elevated areas such as hills, mountain ridges or peaks

  • Never lie flat on the ground

  • Never shelter under a tree

  • Never use a cliff or rocky overhang for shelter

  • immediately get out and away from ponds, lakes and other bodies of water as water bodies attract lightning.

  • Stay away from objects that conduct electricity ( wire fences, power lines, windmills, etc.)


 

Did you know about these safety tips? Even if you did make sure to share it with your friends and family in order to ensure their safety during the time of lightning.

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