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Show WHAT TO DO IN A THUNDERSTORM If you are out of doors in a very severe electrical storm, the Electrical Elec-trical Experimenter offers the following fol-lowing rules for your protection: 1. Keep away from wire fences. They may carry a dangerous electrical elec-trical charge long distances. Cattle Cat-tle in pastures are frequently killed from the neglect of farmers to ground the wire of the fences. 2. Keep away from hedges, ponds and streams. 3. Keep away from isolated trees. Oak trees are frequently struck. It is safe in a dense forest. 4. Keep away from herds of cattle cat-tle and crowds of people. 5. Do not hold an umbrella over you. 6. It is safer to sit or lie down in an open field than to stand. 7. Drivers should dismount and not stay close to their horses. 8. Do not work with any large metal tool or implement. ' If you are in doors: 1. Keep away from the stove and chimney. The hot gases from the chimney may conduct the lightning light-ning to and down the chimney. 2. Do not take a position between be-tween two bodies of metal, as the stove and water pipe, for example. An exception to being near metals is the case of an iron bed. One of the safest places is on a mattress in an iron bed, provided you do not touch the metal.. The metal surrounding sur-rounding you makes a safe cag? . which will prevent the lightning from reaching a person inside. 3. Do not stand on a wet floor nor draw water from the well or faucet. 4. Do not stand directly under a chandelier, near a radiator, nor on a register. 6. Do not use the telephone. |