On Tue, 08 Jul 2014 04:55:56 -0400, micky
wrote:

So if you're willing to stand in the rain in the open space, you might
as well play golf. Hard to beleive after all these years.

Lightning safety tips and facts -- and which activities are more
dangerous than golfing.
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2014/06/lightning_safety_tips_and_fact.html
Soccer is the deadliest sport when it comes to lightning. Of
the sports activities, soccer saw the greatest number of
deaths with 12 (golf had eight). Around the home, yard work,
including mowing the lawn, accounted for 12 fatalities. For
work-related activities, ranching/farming topped the list with
14 deaths.

Ok. Forget about golf, soccer, fishing, yard work, farming, etc, and
you'll probably be safe.

"It's true that the chances of you being injured or killed by lightning
are very small." It should be "your being injured..." Should I
discount what he says cause his English is bad? That's my first
reaction.

A spelling chequer doesn't catch such mistakes.

"Every one who's been accidentally sturck by lightning did nothing to
attract the strike to them." That's not true. Everyone agrees that
standing under a lone tree is dangerous, and I've read in the paper
about people killed while standing under a tree during a lightning
storm. In fact a paragraph below he says it's commonly understood to
stay away from trees, and there is some merit to that. But that it is
dangerous anywhere outside.

Maybe. According the article, water sports are more dangerous than
golfing. Therefore, avoid fishing or swimming in the water hazard.

Oh, well. I don't play golf anyhow, but I guess umbrellas are safe.

Ummm... speaking of bad grammar. The umbrella is safe. We're talking
about whether you are safe, not the umbrella.

You're safe but only when you're not connected to the umbrella. Given
the choice of lightning hitting you with or without an umbrella, I
would say the odds are about the same.

Actually, your best protection is to get someone else to do something
stupid and wave the a golf club or umbrella around during a storm,
while you watch from a safe distance. Always bring a sacrificial
accomplice or relative during a lightning storm. They take the hit
while you're quite safe.

http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/safety.htm

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