Please give the outside safety measures to be taken during Lightning.
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1. > When you hear thunder after the lightning, leads to a safer place. An appropriate shelter to be a building or a car with closed Windows. This is because the body of car acts as a conducting path for lightning charge
2. > Do not lie flat on the ground
3.> Do not take shelter under a trees because trers provide a good conducting path for Lightning.
4.> If you are in a group of people, stay about 15 feet away from each other.
5. > Stay away from all types of water bodies because water is an excellent conductor of electricity.
6. > Open vehicles like scooters, motorbikes, tractors, open cars, open fields, do not protect us when lightning strikes.
7. > People come down from elevated place like from the top of a hill, the Summit of a mountain or the roof top of a building.
8 > If you are in a forest, take shelter under shorter trees that are less likely to be a side of lightning Strike.
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If you are outdoors, follow this safety measures :
1. Take shelter in a building or a car with closed window.
2. Never lie flat on the ground.
3. Do not take shelter under a tree as it provides a good conducting path for lightning.
4. If you are in a group separate out at once. Each one should be at least 15 feet away from the other person.
5. Stay abhi from water bodies as water is a good conductor of electricity.
6. If you are at a height such as hil or rooftop of a building come down at once.
7. If you are at a place such as a forest or where dense vegetation is there then take shelter under short trees.
8. Open vehicles like scooter, bike etc do not provide protection during the lightning.
9. Crouch yourself on your knees on the ground and become as small as possible. Place your hands on your knees with your head between the arms. This position will make you safe against lightning.