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<strong>.</strong> If the weather forecast calls for thunderstorms, postpone your outdoor trip or activity.</p>
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<strong>.</strong> Remember: <strong>When thunder roars, go indoors. </strong>Find a safe, enclosed shelter. Safe shelters include homes, offices, shopping centers, and hard-top vehicles with the windows rolled up.</p>
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<strong>.</strong> If you are caught in an open area, act quickly to find adequate shelter.</p>
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<strong>&nbsp; .</strong> Immediately get off elevated areas such as hills, mountain ridges, or peaks.</p>
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<strong>&nbsp; .</strong> Never lie flat on the ground. Crouch down in a ball-like position with your head tucked and hands over your ears so that you are down low with minimal contact with the ground.</p>
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&nbsp;<strong> .</strong> Never shelter under an isolated tree.</p>
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<strong>&nbsp; .</strong> Never use a cliff or rocky overhang for shelter.</p>
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&nbsp;<strong> .</strong> Immediately get out of and away from ponds, lakes, and other bodies of water.</p>
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&nbsp;<strong> .</strong> Stay away from objects that conduct electricity (such as barbed wire fences, power lines, or windmills).</p>
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<strong>.</strong> If you are in a group during a thunderstorm, separate from each other. This will reduce the number of injuries if lightning strikes the ground.</p>
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<strong>.</strong> If you are out in the open water and a storm rolls in, return to shore immediately.</p>
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<strong>.</strong> Avoid open vehicles such as convertibles, motorcycles, and golf carts.</p>
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<strong>.</strong> Avoid open structures such as porches, gazebos, baseball dugouts, and sports arenas. These structures won&rsquo;t protect you from lightning.</p>
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<strong>.</strong> Stay away from open spaces such as golf courses, parks, playgrounds, ponds, lakes, swimming pools, and beaches. Seek shelter immediately.</p>
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<strong>.</strong> Stay away from tall structures, such as telephone poles and trees; lightning tends to strike the tallest object around.</p>
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<strong>Also read: <a href="https://www.indianarrative.com/india-news/lightning-kills-people-in-bihar-in-hours-season-s-death-toll-goes-up-to-186597.html">Lightning kills another 20 people in Bihar</a></strong></p>
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