weather Wednesday

[marcicat]

As I drove home from work on Monday, and saw So Much Lightning, I reassured myself that the car was a pretty safe place to be, right? Then I got home and checked with google, and it turns out maybe not.

Since that was news to me, I figured I’d share: Vehicles and Lightning!

As far as I can tell, being in your car when lightning strikes may or may not be a good idea:

*If your car is mostly metal, and the windows are all rolled up, and you’ve pulled off the road and aren’t touching anything metal or wired (including the steering wheel), that’s pretty safe!

*Just driving around like usual is still probably safer than being outside the car, but not really “safe” in the most classically accepted version of the word.

Mirrored from The Marci Rating System.