There’s one thing in regards to the immense energy of lightning that has fascinated cultures and other people all through the centuries.
How it behaves, the way it strikes by the sky and the power and harm that it could possibly deliver.
If information stories are something to go by, it could be straightforward to assume that being struck by lightning solely occurs to golfers or seashore anglers.
My visitor right now is neither of these and shares her story of being struck by lightning whereas main an out of doors exercise on a faculty camp.
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Key episode takeaways
- Current recommendation based mostly on Australian Standard Lightning safety AS 1768:2021; Clause 6.4.2. is: all out of doors actions ought to cease as soon as thunder is heard, or within the occasion of climate monitoring units, the storm is 15 kilometres away whatever the timing of the thunder and lightning.
- Understand the earlier recommendation of the 30:30 rule and the way that has modified
- If in a gaggle, don’t keep collectively – unfold out
- Get down from excessive factors like ridges and knolls-be low on the panorama
- Don’t shelter in overhangs or caves
- Realise that ‘taking shelter’ means shelter from the lightning, not the rain
- Always verify forecasts
Links from this episode
Outdoors NSW & ACT – Lightning Advice
Bushwalking Victoria’s Bushwalking Manual.
Transcript
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Sponsor // Paddy Pallin
Rescued Podcast most important photograph // Ben Cirulis and fotografija.com.au