8.
While you are much safer inside than out, lightning can strike you even at
home. Here's how to protect you indoors:
⒈Stay
away from windows.
Get out of the shower or bath. Don't touch
things such as fireplaces and metal pipes.
Cherry, was struck by lightning last year
while washing her clothes. Lightning entered a window next to the washing
machine, struck her right hand, travelled through her body and finally out of
her left arm. "It was as though I was holding a bolt (电光 ) in my hands," remembers Cherry, who was thrown across the
room.
⒉Stay
off the telephone.
It isn't a story—many people have been hurt
through the telephone lines. It was raining outside while Peter Anderson was on
the phone at his house in Florida, "Bang! A bolt hit the building,"
he says. "I felt the hair on my arms stand on end, and a lightning hit me
through telephone.
⒊Unplug
(拔去……插头 ) televisions, computers, etc.
Don't just turn off electrical appliances.
If the house is struck, they could be damaged if you keep them plugged in.
⒋Try
lightning rods (避雷针) if your area is very often hit by
lightning.
Properly
fixed lightning rods reduced chances of damage to a home and to the people
inside it.
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the questions.