Walter & Group.......
Somehow, this note and the link didn't make it when I tried to send it a few days ago. It comes from David Lambert and contains a NOAA link on the subject. I'll try, again.
Gordy
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Gordy, just a quick note on lightning:
Univ of Florida coordinates the The International Center for Lightning
Research and Testing (ICLRT) in Camp Blanding, FL, west of
Jacksonville. They induce strikes by sending up small rockets with
copper wire attached, to study the effects of strikes. National
Geographic gets much of their lightning research from this center.
I took a clinic there a few years back--lightning safety in the
out-of-doors. They recommended: if stranded outdoors in a forest or
field with no shelter, squat into a ball, wrap your knees with your
arms, head down, keep your feet flat on the ground and 10-12 inches apart.
Lying prostrate anywhere makes ou a bigger target, more grounded, more
likely to draw a strike. With your feet apart, squatted, you make a
smaller target. And there was something about lightning passing over
our spread feet, not through you if your feet were together. Hope none
of this group never has to use this info.
Here's the NOAA lightning outdoors sheet. Interesting concept about
anchoring a small boat, the anchor and line creating a grounding link to
the boat, I suppose.
http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/outdoors.htm
David
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