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Asked by to Daren, Lynne, Phillip, Simon on 23 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
Question: how can you survive a lightening strike?
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anon answered on 23 Jun 2014:
Your body conducts electricity and the lightning wants to find the quickest route to the ground. It will cause lots of internal burns as it passes through your body – thats why people get scars like this
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/69274000/jpg/_69274775_winston-kemp-struck-by-lightning.jpg
but as long as it doesn’t interrupt the electrical signals that control your heartbeat, you’ll probably survive.
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Lynne Thomas answered on 23 Jun 2014:
Lightening tends to find the easiest route to the ground and so will find the highest point it can to discharge. So if you are lower to the ground than other things that it can strike, then it should hit that and not you. Best to avoid being close to metal fences and other metal things if you can though. If you have any metal on you, that can make it more likely that you are hit. But the number of people who are hit by lightening each year is very small so you shouldn’t worry too much!
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Daren Fearon answered on 23 Jun 2014:
Apparently the best ways to survive a lightning storm are to:
– Crouch as close to the ground as you can
– Don’t touch any conductors like metal fences
– Only touch the ground with the balls of your feet incase the lightning hits the ground near you so you minimise the chance of electricity entering your body
– Touch your heels together so that if electricity does enter your body from the ground it will go in one foot and out the other
– Cover your ears to minimise damage from the clap of thunder -
Phillip Manning answered on 25 Jun 2014:
…with an awful amount of luck, as you can rarely predict where one will strike! However, people have survived strikes…one chap has even been struck SEVEN times…he was a Park Ranger in the US….unlucky, but also lucky as he survived them all!
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