Matt wrote >avoiding the usual shelters you might seek in rain like >overhangs, shallow caves or any other places where the >ground current might go through you G'day, Thanks for that Matt - I can see your point. Especially if one was lying against a wall under an overhang taking shelter from the rain. My phrase 'under a bank' is misleading - it was a nearly vertical bank, no overhang, no chance of shelter. It seems hard to have to choose between making oneself a discontinuity on a fairly flat surface or, as you point out, a possible short circuit for ground currents near a strike. Given the logic of what you are saying, is it a sensible compromise to crouch near but not against the bank? This is what I was doing though I wasn't thinking of avoiding ground currents at the time. Do the texts give much detail or case studies? I'll try to sketch a cross section of how I was located. I'm assuming ground currents don't arc back out of the ground - is that the case? ********** * * B PeterO * A seated * N #### * K #### * #### * *********************** River * grass & mud ************* All the best, PeterO *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Oct 30 2003 - 02:52:44 PST
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