While you are much safer inside than out全文

While you are much safer inside than out,lightning can strike you even in the home.Here's how to 1 yourself indoors:
　　1.Stay away from 2 .Get out of the shower of bath.Don't 3 conductors such as fireplaces and metal pipes.
　　Cheryl Falvey of Killingworth Conn.,was struck 4 lightning last year while washing her clothes.Lightning 5 a window next to the washing machine,struck her right hand,6 through her body and finally out of her 7 arm."It was as though I was 8 a bolt(雷电)of lightning in my hands," remembers Falvey,who was 9 across the room.
　　2.Stay off the telephone.It isn't an old wives' 10 -many people have been hurt through telephone wires.It was 11 outside while Peter Van Artrijk,Jr.was on the 12 at his house in Florida."Bam!A bolt hit the building," he says."I 13 the hair on my arms stand on end and a charge hit me through telephone,which was 14 blown out of my hand."
　　3.Unplug(拔插头) televisions,computers,etc.Don't just turn them 15 .If the house is struck,they could be damaged if you keep them 16 in.
　　4.Try lightning rods(避雷针) if your 17 is very often hit by lightning.18 fixed,says Rust,lightning rods 19 the chances of damage to a home and to the 20 inside it.