Lightning safety tips

How to pay attention to safety when it thunders? Here are some lightning safety tips for everyone. Welcome to reading.

Lightning safety tips to avoid lightning damage

First, how do people prevent lightning strikes indoors in thunderstorm weather?

1, try to stay indoors and close the doors and windows.

2. Don't answer or make calls to fixed lines, and don't use radios and televisions with external antennas.

3. Do not touch antennas, gas pipes, barbed wire, metal windows, external walls of buildings, etc. Stay away from live equipment.

4. Don't stand barefoot in mud or concrete.

Second, how do people protect against lightning outdoors in thunderstorm weather?

1, don't stand or walk in an open place; Turn off the phone, take off the metal objects and put them a few meters away.

2, don't worry, because a big step, the body induction step voltage is large, easy to hurt people.

3, there is nowhere to escape, just kneel down and let the highest point of the body be as close to the ground as possible.

4. Don't use metal rain gear, and don't carry umbrellas, fishing rods and other metal equipment on your shoulders.

5. Don't get close to lightning-inducing facilities in thunderstorm weather, and don't take shelter under the big tree. Keep a distance of at least two meters from trees or other tall objects.

6. Don't enter low-rise buildings such as shacks and sentry boxes in the wild. These buildings generally have no lightning protection facilities and are high protrusions on the open ground.

7. Don't move on the water surface or at the junction of land and water.

8. Don't ride a bike, motorcycle or convertible.

Misunderstanding of lightning protection

Many people think that as long as lightning rods are installed on buildings, lightning strikes can be completely avoided, which is not entirely correct. Although a perfect lightning protection device can reduce the probability of being struck by lightning to a very low level, it does not mean that it can be completely avoided. Lightning rod is mainly used to prevent direct lightning and side lightning, but electrostatic induction and electromagnetic induction generated on nearby conductors during lightning discharge will cause sparks between metal parts and damage equipment. At the same time, lightning will also act on overhead lines or metal pipelines, and lightning waves can invade along the pipelines, thus endangering the safety of equipment and personnel. Therefore, necessary lightning protection measures must be taken in thunderstorm weather.