best ways of avoiding it? when running
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best ways of avoiding it? when running
Always run with someone taller than you!
at 6'2' i am gonna struggle..Quote:
Originally Posted by nikalas
Don't be the tallest conductor. A couple of months ago I dropped down twenty feet from the ridge line above Issues Clough on Black Hill until the storm had blown over. Sometimes its worth sacrificing time for safety. Best to arrive late than in a box!
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Originally Posted by Rodders
Unless we are talking pizza:D
Run twice a day, it never strikes twice, does it?:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Penguin
Crawl
Never comment on its likelihood as that would be tempting fate. If you avoid this, you are guaranteed never to be struck.
Worry BeadsQuote:
Originally Posted by ukhursty
How would I do this? Creep up behind them and tell them they've left the gas on? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by mr brightside
Stay in! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Penguin
Don't understand, i thought worry beads were for shuffling about when you're worried, something to do with Hare Krishna's :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by noel
One of the scariest stories about lightning I ever heard came from Stuart (of Stuart Sports in Bowness) The way I remember it he was on Bowfell / Crinkles in a storm and getting increasingly concerned about the amount of electricity in the air.
Before he could get off the tops his route was cut off by Ball Lightning. The way he described this was 'red, watermelon-sized balls, floating a few feet above the rocks and following the line of the ridge' It seems like there was no way of avoiding these beasts and eventually one hit Stuart and others struck two walkers. These were full-on lightning strikes and all three victims ended up having to be evacuated and hospitalised.
The really scary thing according to Stuart was that the lightning balls seemed to be attracted to people and follow them when they tried to get out of the way, "like they knew we were there".:eek:
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Originally Posted by mr brightside
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Originally Posted by noel
I was trying to be funny. You're right - they are. I was deliberately misinterpreting your original post to mean that you should worry beads. It doesn't work so well when explained. :oQuote:
Originally Posted by mr brightside
As it comes towards you…
At the last millisecond, casually step to the side :D
Well it works in the cartoons :rolleyes:
I was going to answer this earlier but last night daughter spilt orange juice in to key board.!!!!Only just got the spare out now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Penguin
1)Run with Tall Paul
2)Assume the position!! Kneel down put your hands on your knees put your head as low as possible..... and kiss you ass good bye.:D
Actually this will help as any strike will now travel the line of least resistance so will travel from your rear down your legs and away from vital organs. I wouldn't advise trying it though.:o
Surely that means it'll go right past the MOST VITAL ORGAN!:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
run like grease lighteningQuote:
Originally Posted by Penguin
Brilliant!Quote:
Originally Posted by Trog
I'd also suggest not running with an umbrella.
Is this something you would do normally :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Stolly
You'd be surprised what I carry around in my bumbag ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by emmilou
hee hee :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Stolly
Running in wellies??;)
But what if it's raining? You'll get wet man!:eek::eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mary Poppins
This is one of my pet fears!
I got lots of advice on a previous thread about this, but just as many scare stories. The strike that killed a herd of cows earlier this year was a good example!
The best advice really is to descend quickly. If you feel your hair standing on end, that's the time to double over and get your backside higher than your head. A lightning strike is actually double ended, and a stream of electrons will go up from an object on the ground toward the bolt from the sky - it's when these two meet that you get a stike. Your hair standing on end is a good warning sign this is starting to happen!
Another thing worth bearing in mind is not to shelter in a cave or under a protruding rock as these can be a prime spot for arching effects as the lightning stike jumps across the gap.
I remember running past Chequers (PMs country house) in the Chilterns during a storm last year. My route ran alongside the terrorist proof iron girder fence and I kept wondering whether this would be an advantage by earthing any strike or whether it would just make on more likely!!
Yeah, you're so right, pet's can fear the lightening too! :p
Running back home, off the fell this afternoon, I had to pass through the upper allotment. It's quite a few hundred acres in size and more recently my only concern has been avoiding the cows and their calfs that appeared there last week. Today, I had the added thrill of running amidst a lighning storm. Ahh... the life affirming frisson of multiple jeopardies! Got me thinking, whether I should countinue the line I was on, which involved running for a mile or so parralell to the wire sheep fence, with its barbed wired top line, or run further out in the allotment, away from the fence, and stand out like... There were no other practical options (the herd had penned themselves in the far, lower corner, so were in the know).
I chose a compromise, and ran some 12 feet way from the fence, based on absolutely no logic whatsoever, but which quite evidnetly proved to be the correct decision (today!) :rolleyes:
Mmmh. I cycled home through a lightning/thunderstorm this evening from Blubberhouses Fell (ie high) pondering similar thoughts on roads somewhat empty of high sided metal vehicles.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mossdog
I started counting the delay between the flash and the thunder and then concluded that actually wasn't a very reassuring calculation. :)