||What can lighting do?||

                                             What can lighting do?

Lightning can kill people (3,696 deaths were recorded in the U.S. between 1959 and 2003) or cause cardiac arrest. Injuries range from severe burns and permanent brain damage to memory loss and personality change. About 10 percent of lightning-stroke victims are killed, and 70 percent suffer serious long-term effects.

                             Quick fact about lighting?

If your hair stands on end, lightning is about to strike you. Drop to your knees and bend forward but don't lie flat on the ground. Wet ground is a good conductor of electricity. ... If a thunderstorm approaches when you are outside, don't be a lightning rod. 

Did you know that Lighting create's heat hotter then the sun?

         What happens if you get hit by lighting?? 

if a person is struck by lightning, it can cause cardiac arrest, which stops a person's body from circulating blood and cause direct injury to the brain and nervous system, preventing the brain from being able to send the appropriate signals to tell the body to continue breathing.  

What happens if you get struck by lighting on you're head??

If the electric current enters your skull, it can cook your brain, resulting in brain damage or coma. A lightning strike can cause temporary or permanent paralysis as well. In the wake of a strike, some survivors undergo personality changes, mood swings, and memory loss.

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