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Originally Posted by DeltAlum
Actually, dropping to the ground might help, but only because lightening will generally strike the highest path to earth -- which is why it isn't safe to try to hide under a tree. I suppose that dropping to the ground could make you "lower" than something else that might be close by. You should stay away from high places -- like mountain cliffs or high hills, and off flat places like golf courses where you might be the highest thing in the immediate area.
What it really comes down to is you're probably safer in a house or car.
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your probably safer in a house, but I don't know about a car. There are so many metal objects and things that are so near to you in a car that it could be fatal too.
AT the moment the thing that comes to mind is an episode of CSI: Las Vegas, where they were trying to figure out how a guy died in his car. Turns out that a downed power line hit the top roll bar on his Jeep. Now, this guy was driving with one hand, and had the other arm laying down on window "ledge" (you know how when you roll down your window, you somtimes rest your forearm on that little indentation?).
Now the circuit went through the roll bar, up through his watch, across the seat belt buckle, and made his heart stop. I don't know how accruate that is in real life, but i've heard that if your car was to get hit by lightning, your not suppose to touch ANYTHING, your not even suppose to move, because the lightning is still traveling around your car, and any slight movement can send a shock through your body.