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Lightning can travel from outside your Atlanta home to inside your home-and to you-through materials that conduct electricity, including electrical wiring, phone lines, water, and plumbing. These safety guidelines from your trusted Atlanta surge protection contractor will help minimize your risk.
If you're inside and you hear thunder or see lightning, it's time to take precautions. Continue your indoor safety precautions for 30 minutes after you see the last lightning or hear the last thunder.
Its too late to unplug your electronics if thunderstorms are close.
If you count 30 seconds or less from when you see lightning to when you hear thunder, you missed your chance to unplug your home electronics. If you're in the lightning danger zone, you should not touch any wiring, even just to unplug your home electronics!
If you need to use the phone, corded phones are dangerous during thunderstorms. Lightning traveling through the telephone wires has killed people. Cell phone and cordless phones are a safer choice, but stand away from the cell or cordless phone's power base. Be sure to keep your cordless and cell phones charged; they may not work if your power goes out.
Sinks, showers, tubs, and toilets can conduct electricity from lightning strikes from outside your home to you.
Electronic equipment with handsets, joysticks, and headsets connected by wiring to your TV, computer, or stereo are dangerous during thunderstorms. Stop playing-and stop your children from playing-video games connected to TV during thunderstorms. The wiring creates a path for lightning to reach you from outside your home.
Metal window frames can conduct electricity. Windowpanes can break from acoustic shock of thunder, wind-blown objects, or large-size hail.
If your power goes out, use flashlights or battery-operated lights instead of candles. Candles are a fire hazard. Have a battery-powered radio available for updated weather conditions.
No place outside is 100% safe from lightning during a thunderstorm. However, there are some precautions you can take to minimize your risk.
The best way to avoid lightning is not put yourself, family, and friends in danger in the first place. No one should be caught “off guard†by thunderstorms.
Lightning in open fields kills more people than any other outdoor place. Outdoor sports activities on large open fields-like soccer, golf, baseball, and softball-usually peak during thunderstorm season in most states. Players, coaches, and staff often push their luck when thunderstorms threaten their safety, hoping to get one more hole in, one more kick off, or one more batter up. The consequences can be deadly.
Outdoor recreation facilities, such as golf courses, should have a formal lightning warning policy that meets these two basic requirements:
For more information The National Institute of Standards and Technology (nist.gov) lightning safety website features many helpful articles.
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