Реферат: Lightning Essay Research Paper Lightning is a
you from some distance away. If you are hopelessly isolated in a level
field or prairie and you feel your hair stand on end, indicating lightning
is about to strike, drop to your knees and bend forward, putting your hands
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on your knees. Do not lie on the ground!!! (95)
Lightning does not choose its victims or target. It just happens. For the many fatalities, those people were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. It is alright
to be curious about lightning, but do not be stupid. Take the proper precautions or
you may just be another statistic. Remember you cannot predict when or where lightning will strike, but you can be aware of the possibility. It might be well, also to recall this passage from ?Playing with Lightning?, written by a lightning stalker, Karl B. McEachron, quoted in The New Book of Popular Science: ?If you heard the thunder, the lightning did not strike you. If you saw the lightning, it missed you; and if it did strike you, you would have known it? (144). So, in otherwords, you can not predict when or where lightning will strike, but you will definitely know it, when it strikes you.
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