Surviving Lightning: Key Safety Tips

Your phone battery could literally save your life in a thunderstorm and nobody talks about

this. When lightning strikes nearby, your electronics can detect the electromagnetic

pulse seconds before impact. Put your phone in airplane mode immediately because active signals

attract electrical charges. Here's the wild part. If you're caught

outside, crouch down but keep your feet together, heels touching. Separated feet create

a ground current pathway through your body. Most lightning deaths aren't from direct

strikes but from the electricity traveling through the ground between your legs.

And that rubber shoe myth? Complete garbage. Lightning just traveled miles through air,