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Red Cross Warns
On Lightning Bolts
“The Bolt that never sleeps, Thunder with breath of flame” -- that’s lightning, Mother Nature’s busiest problem child.
According to the Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA), it strikes the earth 100 times each second, sometimes carrying current peaks of 200,000 amperes or more. It provides the pyrotechnics for some 1,800 thunderstorms that are estimated to be in progress over the earth’s surface at any given moment. And it kills.
Sad to relate, most of the lightning deaths that occur in the United States each year could easily have been avoided, says John T. Goetz, Eastern Area director of the American Red Cross Safety Programs.
Moreover, many of those struck by lightning could have been saved, if their companions had known how to save them, he believes. He will also throw in the story that, if you are quick-witted, you may actually be able to “dodge” a lightning bolt. Believe this too, because it would save your life, as pointed out below.
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