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Show Head For Car During Storm TTERE'S COMFORT for those " who dive under the nearest bed at the first crash of thunder. The National Geographic Magazine has some advice on how to dodge lightning. light-ning. Don't head for the nearest bed. Your automobile is much safer. It's one of the safest places you can take refuge in because the steel of the body will conduct the current away from the occupants. That goes for airplanes too. Your chances of being killed by lightning in the United States are about one in 365,000. And this is true despite the fact that over the earth some 44,000 lightning storms occur every day, with 100 flashes of lightning every second. Moreover, some strokes at their peaks generate temperatures as high as 27,000 degrees Fahrenheit. It is "turned on" only 35 millionths of a second during the 20,000 mile an hour flash. Lightning is known to strike between be-tween two clouds, or within a single cloud far more often than between a cloud and the ground. A flash may speed more than 10 miles between two clouds, and it may race to the ground from a distance of only three miles. Strikes Same Place Twice Lightning can and does strike the same place twice. It has hit the Empire State building in New York city as many as 12 times in 20 minutes, min-utes, and as often as 50 times a year. Another feature recently discovered discov-ered is that lightning may strike upward from the ground. That is because it is really a high speed flow of current hank nnrl fnrth Ha |