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Question

Okay, so I have a serious fear of thunder and lightning.

Is it safe to be in a vehicle in the garage during a thunderstorm?

Where is the safest place to be if there is no vehicle in the garage?

PLEASE ANSWER !!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

The safest place is out in the open. Lie down in a ball, keeping as low as possible.

You should be OK inside a vehicle provided nothing can fall on it.

Answer 2

Lightning actually is quite dangerous.  So your respect for it is well founded.  Lightning discharge is an attempt to equalize the charge carried in clouds with the earth below.  Thunder is just the noise accompanying lightning due to its passage through the atmosphere.  Thunder by itself isn't dangerous, but it also doesn't happen alone.  

All electricity needs a path to travel along.  It prefers conductive paths, like copper or water, but even steel and other less conductive materials can carry the current.

One important thing is that current does not flow inside of a conductive cage.  A car is a hollow object with a conductive skin.  Lightning can follow the metal skin, but it doesn't jump around inside the hollow passenger compartment.  Physical laws prevent that.  

Some people think the rubber tires insulate the car chassis and current can't pass from the chassis to ground.  Unfortunately, this is a myth.  The tires are insulating, but the applied voltage can easily arc over the insulator.  Moreover, if moisture from rain for example is present, the current will follow the moisture down the tire to ground.  

High voltage electricians can tell you that a downed power line can conduct through a vehicle chassis to ground.  I've seen a dump truck cook this way until the line was manually disconnected.  The smell of burning rubber tires was quite acrid.  

Your job to be safe is to find a place that electricity does not want to flow through and not to place yourself in the path of a flow.  For example, if you're in the vehicle with the downed power line on top, then don't open the door and stand on the ground with your hand on the chassis.  You will become the conductive path.  Ooops.  You could jump out of the vehicle without being electrocuted.  

If you're inside a building, it is generally safe, because the skin of the building and its guts have many conductive plumbing pipes to ground or other conductive materials to ground.  Remember not to make yourself the path, though.  So, opening a metal garage door by hand with your feet on the wet ground is ill-advised.  Inside any conductive cage, like your car, is about as safe as you can be.  

As always, stay away from outside walls and try not to complete the circuit between higher points in the building and plumbing fixtures or other grounded points.  In other words, don't stand on a metal ladder holding the light fixture.  Electrical fixtures are all grounded but during a lightning strike everything raises up above ground in voltage, including the overhead grounded light fixture.  You don't want to be the path from the fixture to earth.  It should be pointed out that inside a building is pretty safe unless there is a direct strike on the building.  

It may be contrary to your thinking but the old-fashioned metal phone booths with a door are safer to be inside during a lightning storm than standing under a tree.  Fingers from the lightning bolt feel around from the top of the tree looking for a path.  If you're standing there, you'll feel the hair on your body rise up and the charge is looking at you as a path.  If that happens, don't hesitate -- drop immediately flat on the ground.  Try to make yourself no more attractive than your surroundings.  Lightning likes high points -- the more conductive the better, like silver or copper or even steel -- the higher the better, like flagpoles and antenna towers.  Those tall metal structures attract lightning strikes. The top floor of a parking garage with no roof would not be my first choice to be during a lightning storm.  

So, as you can guess, inside a closed car inside a garage is extremely safe.  Without a car there too, then go toward the interior walls and stay away from electrical boxes.

Answer 3

Bathroom.........

Answer 4

In the basement, away from the windows

Answer 5

in the bath tub..that's where i go