Weather Imagery

One myth that could potentially cost someone their life is the belief that highway overpasses provide safe shelter from tornadoes. This is a myth for reasons which may not be immediately obvious to some and probably started when a video clip aired nationally that showed a family and a news crew running up and hiding beneath an overpass to shelter themselves from an oncoming tornado. This is not what you want to do and could prove fatal.

Millions of people all across the country saw this video and figured this was the safest thing to do. Since then, many people have been killed by doing exactly what they saw on TV.

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This isn’t a straight-forward answer. Although the lightning bolt itself can’t hit you, it can travel through conductive surfaces within your house. Lightning is a master of trickery and can do some pretty strange things. People have found shelter in what appeared to be safe places only to have the great misfortune of being electrocuted. Although the odds of you being killed by lightning while inside a building during a thunderstorm are considerably worse than winning Powerball, it’s still possible and has happened on many occasions.

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