| Show points of danger dang er in severe thunder storm in general rocky ground Is by lightning more often than meadow land and r rocks 0 acks near water miter especially lf if th they L i are high are commonly struck large groups of persons caught out in the open by a storm should scatter and lie ile down in the mud it la Is better to be muddy than sorry similarly it one Is 13 caught out in alake a lake in on an open boat a very bad place to beit be it Is best to lie ile down in the bottom and drift than to try to row to shelter another rule tor for safety in the country Is that it Is better not to yield to temptation and seek shelter to in exposed buildings it Is better to get wet than to stand on tho the porch of such a building wood houses are just as safo safe or as dangerous as stone houses homes made entirely of metal or ot of metal framework are very safe it la Is well to notice that many commonly accepted beliefs are groundless A bed Is no safer than a chair or the floor for that matter it makes little if any difference it the windows are open or shut although closed windows will keep out the rain and some of the dolse small steel objects such as scissors or knives are perfectly harmless the essence of a thunder storm la Is that lightning Is simply the visible part of an electrical discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth it always follows the path ot of least resistance if you stay out of dangerous places you are perfectly safe and anyway you have chances to one of being lilt hit and to one chances of being killed |
