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Rubber tires on your automobile (or rubber sole shoes) insulate you from lightning strikes. |
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Not true!!! Rubber tires (or rubber sole shoes) offer NO PROTECTION whatsoever from lightning strikes. |
Actually, it is the steel in the automobile which can provide you with protection from lightning. Lightning will take the easiest path between two points and air is a good insulate to electricity. So, when lightning strikes the roof of a car, the easiest path to the ground
is through the metal surrounding the passenger compartment, not through it. If you are not touching any metal surface of the vehicle, you are protected from the dangers of lightning.
However, you are reminded that this applies to HARDTOP ONLY vehicles and not convertibles. A convertibles offers NO protection from lightning strikes, and
rubber sole shoes are just as ineffective as convertibles in insulating you from the dangers of lightning.
If you can hear thunder, then lightning is near enough that you can be struck. Follow these lightning safety rules...
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SEEK SHELTER INDOORS IMMEDIATELY! Get inside a home, large building or a hardtop automobile (not a convertable). Once inside a home, do not use the telephone except for emergencies. |
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 Do not stand under trees.
Lone trees and telephone poles are most susceptible to lightning. While groups of trees will offer some protection, you need to avoid trees altogether. There have been several instances where groups of people have been injured by lightning while they sought shelter from the rain under trees. |
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The National Weather Service reminds you to
BE WEATHERWISE...NOT OTHERWISE
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