How to protect yourself and your home appliances in thunderstorm weather?

How to protect yourself in lightning weather?

1, near buildings and indoors, the following four points should be noted:

1. Don't stay on the roof.

2. Pay attention to close the doors and windows.

For buildings with reinforced concrete frame structure, closing doors and windows can prevent the invasion of side lightning and ball lightning. Most ball mines enter the room along smoke chimneys, windows and doors of buildings. They move indoors for a few seconds and then escape, which is easy to cause explosions.

3. Exposed metal objects such as water pipes, heating pipes and gas pipes. When lightning strikes, it should not be close to buildings, and should be far away from the down lead of special lightning rod.

4. Electrical equipment without lightning protection facilities should not be used.

2. How do people protect their safety outside the building in thunderstorm weather?

1. It is not suitable to enter low-rise buildings such as shacks and sentry boxes.

It is not advisable to hide under the big tree.

When the storm comes, most people will naturally run under the big tree to take shelter from the rain. As everyone knows, they often shelter from the rain but bring disaster.

3. It is not advisable to hit metal objects such as umbrellas in the wild.

4. It is not suitable to work on the water surface or at the junction of land and water.

5. It is not advisable to drive a motorcycle or ride a bike quickly.

In thunderstorm weather, motorcycle lightning accidents happen constantly. People who are injured by lightning when driving motorcycles may be lucky, thinking that motorcycles are fast and can shelter from the rain as soon as they rush. In fact, motorcycles can't be faster than lightning.

6. Not suitable for outdoor ball games.

Playing outdoor ball games in thunderstorm days is easy to cause serious consequences of group death and group injury, which has been proved by many examples of lightning disasters abroad.

In addition to the precautions mentioned above, we also give you the following suggestions: when going out for an outing or production in summer, it is best to bring non-metallic rain gear, such as plastic raincoat, wooden handle or umbrella with plastic handle; When lightning strikes in the wild, it is best to take off metal objects and put them several meters away; Don't rush when it thunders, because the stepping voltage through the body is large when the steps are big, which is easy to hurt people; Don't casually set up metal antennas on the roof or the roof, including wire for drying clothes. In case of unfortunate lightning strike, colleagues should call the police for help in time, and at the same time do artificial respiration and extracorporeal heart massage for the injured or fake dead.

Ten "secrets" of personal lightning protection

1, stay indoors and close the doors and windows; People who work outdoors should hide in buildings.

2. TV, audio and other electrical appliances without lightning protection measures or insufficient lightning protection measures should not be used, and faucets should not be used.

3. Don't touch antennas, water pipes, barbed wire, metal doors and windows, external walls of buildings, and stay away from live equipment such as wires or other similar metal devices.

4. Avoid using telephones and wireless phones.

5. Don't swim or engage in other water sports. Not suitable for outdoor ball games, mountain climbing, horse riding and other sports. Leave the water and other open spaces and look for places with lightning protection facilities to escape.

6. Don't stand on the top of the mountain, on the roof or other protruding objects, and don't get close to objects with high conductivity.

7. Don't handle flammable items in open containers.

8. When you can't hide in a building with lightning protection facilities in the wild, you should stay away from sharp objects such as trees, telephone poles and masts.

9. It is not advisable to take an umbrella in the open space, and it is not advisable to carry tools such as badminton rackets and golf clubs on your shoulders.

10, not suitable for driving or riding vehicles on the road.

How to protect household appliances in thunderstorm weather?

You can install a lightning protection device for the power supply at home, which will automatically cut off when it thunders. All sockets should be equipped with grounding wires, and they are all over 2.5 square meters. If conditions permit, lightning rods can be installed on the roof. With these triple protections, home appliances are naturally not afraid of being struck by lightning.