What safety measures should be taken during lightning and thunderstorm? y
The following safety measures are advisable to be adopted to protect from lightning and thunderstorm: No open place is safe. A house or a building is a safe place. If travelling by car or by bus, it is safe to stay inside with windows and doors of the vehicle shut. If we are outside, the following things are important to be kept in mind: (a) Open vehicles, like motorbikes, tractors, construction machinery, fields, tall trees, shelters in parks, elevated places do not protect us from lightning strikes.(b) If no shelter is available and we are in an open field, we should keep away from all trees. We should stay away from poles or other metal objects. We should not lie on the ground. Sitting in a pose as given in the Fig. is advisable.
