What shouldn't i do during a thunder/lightning storm?What are the odds of your house getting hit by lightning?
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Lightning can and does strike houses, but seldom with any injuries or fatalities. Stay away from electric appliances, electrical outlets, exposed plumbing, and don't talk on the phone unless its cordless. Never take a bath or a shower during a thunder and lightning storm. Avoid windows, and unplug the power cords to your computer, including the telephone cable going into your modem.
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a good surge suppressor is what you need. Can you be sure to be home for every storm?
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Your car is a safer place to be in an electrical storm because, if struck, the metal frame of your car will provide the path of least resistance (which is what electricity always takes) to the ground. Your car and all its electrical systems will be fried, but you should be safe (as long as you are not directly touching that metal frame).\n\nAnd as for your rubber tires providing insulation ... think again, because that small amount of rubber will do very little to stop a lightning bolt with somewhere over 10 million volts of power
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Lightning creates thunder, by rapidly heating the surrounding air. The heated air expands explosively and compresses the air immediately around the heated area.
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It depends on how high up you are in your apartment complex. So long as you are not the top floor or two then you are ok in that respect. make sure that you are not standing in water, that you have rubber shoes on and that you aren't touching anything metal. of course this is all just to be on the safe side just to make sure that a positive spike doesn't come off of you and try to connect with a bolt.\n\nI am an amateur photographer and have stood out in open fields taking pictures of lighting from storms 5-30 miles away. It's all in a matter of how safe you feel. I have had some REALLY close calls. If your hair ever starts to stand up drop to the ground FAST and roll away from whatever you are next to.
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Try to put your car in the garage or under a large tree.  Stay in the house.  And pray.  I have been in some hailstorms where the hail was so large that it crashed through windows and busted out car windshields.  One in particular was very large, and the hail was not shaped like any round object.  It came down out of the sky in jagged chunks of ice.  If you get hit on the head by a very large piece of hail, you could get hurt.
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In a storm cloud, the moving air makes tiny water droplets and ice rub together so they become charged with static electricity. The positive electrical charges float up near the top of the cloud and the larger ones, with negative charges, stay near the bottom. This separation of electrical charges is very unstable and lightning is the way the charges are equalized or become balanced. \n\n\nWhat you need?\n\nA large iron or steel pot (not aluminum) with a plastic handle. \nRubber gloves. \nAn iron or steel fork. \nA plastic sheet (a dry-cleaner garment bag is good source). \n\nWhat to do..\n\nTape the plastic sheet to a table top.\n\nPut on the rubber gloves.\n\nDarken the room as much as possible.\n\nHold the large iron pot or pan by its insulating handle and rub the pan vigorously to and fro on the plastic sheet. \n\nHolding the fork firmly in the other hand, bring its prongs slowly near the rim. When the gap between pot and fork is small, a tiny spark should jump across (A darker room will help you see the spark more clearly).\n \nWhat you will Discover\nIt is as though the pan is the thundercloud, the fork is the lighting rod and you are the Earth's surface.\n\nPlease note: The humidity in the air can affect static electricity. If the air is damp, such as during the winter, then this experiment may not work.
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Hi, it's raining and thunder storming here in Texas tonight, and I hate this kind of weather, I don't know why I get so freaked out and scared when it's like this but I do,,,,,hope i don't ruin my computer being on here in this storm...bye
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Get a weather radio if your town doesn't already have weather warning sirens.  If a Tornado Warning is given, get in the basement of your home or your most internal room without windows.\n\nIf you're in a trailer or car, GET OUT and get yourself in a ditch and hold on.  That train sound isn't a train.
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You have a better chance of being struck by lightning.
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an Electrical storm involves lightning.\nAnd lightning can travel at the speed of light.\nBecause it mostly is light.\n\nThunder is slower and goes at the speed of sound so we hear the thunder later.
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Found 10:\n1. Stay or go indoors! \n2. Stay away from anything that could conduct electricity.\n3. Don't use any plug-in electrical appliances like hair dryers, electric toothbrushes, \n4. Don't use the telephone during the storm. \n5. Stay in your automobile if you are traveling. \n6. Don't use metal objects outside, like fishing rods and golf clubs. \n7. Get out of the water. \n8. If you're outdoors, seek shelter from lightning! \n9. If you can't find shelter, avoid the tallest object in the area. \n10. When you feel the electrical charge, drop to the ground immediately!
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If there is lightning associated with your rain storm, don't run.\n\nOtherwise, the biggest problem you're likely to have is getting blisters from running in wet shoes and socks.  I always grease my feet up with Vaseline® when I'm going to end up getting my shoes and socks wet. It helps prevent blisters.\n\nTry to avoid puddles if you can. You'll keep your feet dry longer, and it's difficult to tell what the running surface is like under the surface.
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interesting question! \n\nim originally from arizona where they have freak monsoon storms. they say in you car, away from the tv and windows. otherwise, i doesnt matter. if the lightning hits a tree and the tree hits the house... u r screwed regaurdless!!
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very, i lost everything in my computer once because of lightning. if you're sure to unplug your computer whenever theres a storm coming, you should be alright
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That depends on the intensity of the lightning. Due to jolt of thunder, by the reflex action, your eyes are automatically closed and protected. Even if you are in your car, a lightning hit your car, it will conduct the ligtning to the earth without affecting you and your eye. The question is how safely you are kept to lightning. But not the question of lightning distance.
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depending on the charges involved lightning can either strike from the ground to the clouds, or the clouds to the ground, or from cloud to cloud. What you were almost struck by would have been ground to cloud lightning. Not sure which is most common (likely cloud to cloud) but all three of these can occur.