Ha. The proper method is to squat and keep your hands off the ground.
>From past experience 26 years working around electrical lines- phone lines
etc. I have been knocked down by a lightning shot that came out of the
blue just in front of the storm. All I saw was a blinding white light, a
boom that rattled my teeth and a hit that was like someone punching you in
the chest as hard as they could..it knocked me back and I fell on my back.
I got up very shaken not burnt but slightly stired...grin... I got in my
phone truck and it hit again very close and I about gave birth at that time.
I have seen fuses blown out of the screw sockets shot through a interior
wall like a bullet, phones that were melted and totally smoked, wires that
still hung up in the air but had either only copper bbs left in them or no
copper left in them. Dirt blown 2 feet deep completely out of the ground
all around a big tree. Electrical meters and phone boxes blown completely
off the houses.
I have seen a ball of blue fire running down the power lines jumping to
ground where it could. The guys that work in the manholes report this fire
ball running down the phone cables that is why manditory bonding and
shielding in man holes is required. One doesn't want it not to go on it's
merry way now do we?
Lightning does what it wants to. If your on the end of the power line your
going to get it most of the time...
The boys at Pow Wow a few years back while out in a open field on a hill
reported their hair standing straight up and they squated...but no shot came
down. It was all around us though.
Lightning is bad but the worst damage is from a high voltage line. It fries
everything. Welding metal when and where it hits it will even catch a power
pole on fire.
I have learned through the years.... no job is so important no service so
urgent that we cannot get back into the truck in a lightning storm. The
Ranger Bus makes a great refuge from lightning during a storm...can even
teach rope craft while you wait for it to pass.
Mark Jones
----- Original Message -----
From: "David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 8:54 AM
Subject: RE: [RR] Safety and numbers.
>I understand you get a bit of warning before the actual strike: your hair
> stands on end for a moment or something like that. During that moment, is
> there a position one should assume that might minimize burn damage?
>
> David Perich
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adrian The Larrikin Bonham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 1:04 AM
> To: David; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [RR] Safety and numbers.
>
> On 1 Aug 2005 at 23:19, David wrote:
>
>> I read several years ago (or maybe they told it to me in First-Aid/CPR
>> class) that 95% of people who get struck by lightening could be saved if
>> only there were someone there to do CPR. I don't know if that's true or
> if
>> they just pulled that number out of the air.
>> David Perich
> It is true. The lightning causes the heart to start fibutlating. If CPR is
> started within 8 mintutes the person can survive.
> I am saying this as a qualified First Aid instrustor.
> The burns caused by lightning are where it hits the person and here it
> earths.
>
> Adrian Bonham
> St. Johns' Australia
> Penrith Division
>
>
>
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