should I be on the computer or phone while its lightening outside?

Answer 1

No Lightning can produce as much as 300,000 amperes and one billion volts!
if it were to hit the ground near the house or powerlines

the answer is NO!


LIGHTNING SAFETY LINKS

http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/edu/safety/lightning.html

http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/more.htm

http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/overview.htm

http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/oun/severewx/safety.php

http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/primer/lightning/ltg_faq.shtml

http://newweb.wrh.noaa.gov/hnx/LightningMyths-1.pdf

http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/survivors.htm

Answer 2

Absolutely not, if lightning happens to strike a nearby pole while you are on line good by computer.

Answer 3

Neither. It's rare to have such incidents happening to you where you get seriously injured, but it's better to be safe than sorry. Also, stay away from windows - thunderstorms are so unpredictable.

Answer 4

I could really care less but i wuold be eating pie not chatting it up. if u get struck by lightening u should want to die while u were eating something tasty

Answer 5

u cn stay on the phone but not on the computer cause it can mess up connection or memory on there.

Answer 6

I would stay off the computer.

Answer 7

phone's fine, but id stay off com to be safe.

Answer 8

the odds of anything actually happening to you are so close to zero you could call it zero and still be right.