Avoid leaning against vehicles. Get off bicycles and motorcycles. Get out of the water, off the beach and out of small boats and canoes. If caught in a boat, crouch down in the center of the boat, away from metal hardware. Avoid standing in puddles of water.
Rubber boots offer little protection.
When there is no shelter, avoid the highest object in the area. If only isolated trees are nearby, your best protection is to crouch in the open, keeping twice as far away from isolated trees as the trees are high. Avoid hilltops, open spaces, wire fences, metal clothes lines, exposed sheds, and any electrically conductive, elevated objects. Do not use metallic objects like golf clubs, fishing rods, tennis rackets and tools. Do not work on fences, telephone or power lines, pipelines, steel fabrications, antennae, or on roof tops, or other high places.