Originally Posted by kyle!
yeah. running in the lightning was fun when i was a wee one. however. i would avoid it now. not that there's many lightning days here.
hey. this article mentions something about being killed in a car by lightning. how could you get killed? i mean if the window was down, sure. or if the car has all metal interior, sure. but that makes no sense to me. unless you can electrocuted through all that rubber, vinyl, and upolstrey(sp?).
I heard this a while back and may not remember it quite right but... Supposedly if your car is hit by lightning the rubber tires will help prevent you from being injured, but you must also avoid moving, the car acts a capacitor, storing charge for a while, and if you move wrong (especially if you touch something connected to ground), the charge stored on the car will travel through you. Okay, I'm not a lightning expect and I heard that several years ago, so make of that what you will.