List five safety rules for human protection when lightning threatens that are recommended by United States Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
What will be an ideal response?
The United States Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has compiled the following safety rules for human protection when lightning threatens:
| ? | Stay indoors and do not venture outside unless absolutely necessary. |
| ? | Stay away from open doors and windows, fireplaces, radiators, stoves, metal pipes, sinks, and plug-in electrical appliances. |
| ? | Do not use plug-in electrical equipment such as hair dryers, electric toothbrushes, or electric razors during the storm. |
| ? | Do not use the telephone during the storm-lightning may strike telephone lines outside. |
| ? | Do not take laundry off the clothesline. |
| ? | Do not work on fences, telephone or power lines, pipelines, or structural steel fabrication. |
| ? | Do not use metal objects such as fishing rods and golf clubs. Golfers wearing cleated shoes are particularly good lightning rods. |
| ? | Do not handle flammable materials in open containers. |
| ? | Stop tractor work and dismount, especially when the tractor is pulling metal equipment. Tractors and other implements in metallic contact with the ground are often struck by lightning. |
| ? | Get out of the water and off small boats. |
| ? | Stay in your automobile if you are driving. Automobiles offer lightning protection. |
| ? | Seek shelter in a building. If a building is unavailable, seek protection in a cave, a ditch, a canyon, or under head-high clumps of trees in open forest glades. |
| ? | When there is no shelter, avoid the highest object in the area. If only isolated trees are nearby, the best protection is to crouch in the open, keeping twice as far away from isolated trees as the trees are high. |
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