Actually, it’s not safe to crouch during a lightning storm
"As storm season gets underway in much of the United States, the National Lighting Safety Council is spreading awareness about some outdated safety information. “The crouch”—where you sit in a crouched squatting position with your hands over your head—is not the best course of action during a thunder and lightning storm" ...Snip... More at link
‘When thunder roars, go indoors.’
Well, we’re in the middle of a big storm. We went to the basement when the tornado siren went off, but we already suspected that because the lights were blinking and the wind and rain was CRAZY. We lost power (it’s still off) but I was fully charged and still managed to have one bar of LTE on my cell phone. My emergency lights all worked like a charm. Very nice to have some light when it gets dark so fast. One minute we were listening to EWF and the next we were scrambling for safer spaces.
After 30 minutes it stopped sounding awful, so now we are back upstairs in the family room. No power, but we’re good. I’ve tethered my iPad to my iPhone, so still have contact with the outside world. And I’m back up to 5G up here on the main level of our house!
If no power in another hour, we will go set up the generator. The rain should stop by then. We have 2 fridge/freezer combos, and one full freezer. Can’t lose that food. It would be at least hundreds of dollars of food. Maybe even a thousand or so.