If your hair suddenly stands on end during an electrical storm or your skin tingles, lightning is about to strike you. Your only hope is to drop immediately to the ground. Avoid high ground but, unfortunately, you can't count on open ground as safe either. Multiple injuries occurred when lightning struck the open racetrack at Ascot. Several years ago, the Ohio Medical Journal reported that 30 players, coaches or spectators were struck by lightning at football fields within one month.
Home is the safest place to be.
But stay away from open doors, fireplaces, pipes, metal sinks and the telephone. Turn off all appliances. Many people are on boats when an electrical storm strikes. The best move, if possible, is to head for port. And if you're swimming, get out of the water.