Everyone thinks they are safe under a tree, or somehow drier, but you NEVER stand under a tree in a thunderstorm.
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Falling limbs can suck too
Yeah, I was taught as a kid not to stand under a tree during a thunderstorm. Especially a lone tree out in a field or on a hill, as lightning often strikes at the highest point over the spot that will be hit as it courses down to the ground. They would have been safer to keep running...back to their car. Cars have a lot of metal but are (as I was told) grounded by the rubber on their tires.
Unfortunately that sort of wisdom is learned on a farm... not very many people these days have such backgrounds.
They mustn’t teach the young uns anything anymore everybody I know knows not to go underneath a tree when a lightning storm comes or get off the roof on a aluminum ladder a storm is in the backyard
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