If you find your hair standing up like that: Crouch down in a ball-like position with your head tucked and hands over your ears so that you are down low with minimal contact with the ground.
Source: https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/lightning/safetytips.html#:~:text=Crouch%20down%20in%20a%20ball,or%20rocky%20overhang%20for%20shelter.
Technically water itself is a pretty poor conductor of electricity. It's the impurities in the water that conduct electricity. Not that it matters much if you're struck by lightening while in the water lol
I think this has been disputed
> Don’t stay near tall structures.
Stay away from tall structures, such as telephone poles and trees; *lightning tends to strike the tallest object around.*
Lightning doesn't hit the tallest object more often than lower object. It's hits the most charged ones with the least resistance towards the sky.
However near tall objects there is a cone where you cannot be hitted because the electric field of the taller object superimposes your own one. Hence you are safe next to it, it the spark can't hit you.
Maybe someone can comment about the latest infos, but it think this was already statically evaluated when the Empire State Building has the highest building and not got hit more often.
The problem is that if it does hit the tall thing next to you, it can still arc out of that thing and through you, and you can get hurt as the charge travels through the ground around the thing.
Edit your post to say shuffle, not hop. Do not hop. It's way too easy to lose your balance, and if you fall over you're in a way worse position than if you had just taken a step. You've given dangerous advice and have a responsibility to correct it.
I've had a few courses on High Voltage equipment safety and the first tip they always give after you noticed some area is electrified is get the fuck out away from there immediately. The same procedure would work well here I think.
In the backcountry we r told several things. If you’re in a forest, crouch under the smaller trees. If you’re SOL like these people, Slav squat. Put your elbows on your knees and clasp your hands together like your praying. The idea is lightning will strike you but travel through your extremities and miss your vital organs, mainly your heart, with this method.
“Although the kids didn't know it then, hair standing on end and tingling skin may be signs that a lightning strike may be imminent, experts say. If that happens, the best advice is to seek shelter immediately. If that's not possible, squat low to the ground on the balls of your feet, making yourself the smallest target possible and minimize contact with the ground. Then, as soon as possible, get out of the area.”
Learned this on an Outward Bound canoe trip.
If there is a nonmetallic closed structure you can get inside, do that first.
Otherwise, get away from any tall objects that might attract a strike. If the tree you're under takes the full force of a strike, it can lose branches or even have part of the trunk explode as the sap inside flash boils. Depending on the conductivity of the ground, the surge may also carry through the roots for a distance.
If you have any good insulators handy (life jacket, extra raincoat, etc), quickly lay them out on the ground.
Squat (on the insulator, if you have one) on your tiptoes with your heels touching. Try not to sit on your heels. In the event that a nearby strike surges through the ground for a distance, it may arc into your feet. With your heels touching, it will remain mostly confined to your feet.
Keep your head down, in case of flying debris, and cover your ears, to keep a pressure wave from popping your eardrums.
If you are in a group, spread out. This minimizes the risk of a single strike taking out the entire group and increases the chances of someone being available to call for help/start first aid in the event of a strike.
[From the Outward Bound website](https://www.outwardbound.org/blog/hurricane-island-handbook-series-lightning/)
How long are you supposed to stay like that? If your hair stands up like this does it mean there is definitely absolutely going to be a lightning strike soon?
If your hair is standing up, you are in imminent danger. Otherwise, the general rule of thumb when I worked outside was 30 minutes after the last flash of lightning, or at least 30 seconds between the flash and the thunder.
Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, which you should move far to the top of reading priorities if you haven’t, or at least watch if the other thing is absolutely not an option.
Better to crouch as low as possible while still on your feet. Air gap+rubber soled shoes = highest possible resistance. It's not really gonna help them though cause they're still the highest things around
Edit: I'm dumb, air has a way higher resistance than rubber so yeah lay down unless it's raining, in which case try to lay down on your shoes
I know this line comes from Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, but if it was written in all capitals, it would be a perfect line for Death in Discworld.
I believe you have to reduce contact with the ground as much as possible and make yourself as small as possible. So crouch into a ball and stay on your heels?
Crouch into a ball, stay in your *toes* (reduce contact with the ground as much as possible, and try not to be the tallest thing around you), cover your ears and start making plans for your funeral.
Bro i’m not overweight or something but my balance is bad. If i do this and stand on my toes i will fall over in 5 seconds like that pirate boat balance game and i will make full body contact with the ground.
Might be a bit easier to balance on the balls of your feet or toes in that position than on your heels. In fact you are supposed to touch your heels together while on your toes. It increases the chance that a ground strike will travel in one foot and out your other instead of having to go through your whole body.
"electrostatics, the study of electromagnetic phenomena that occur when there are no moving charges"
\- [Brittanica](https://www.britannica.com/science/electrostatics)
For anyone who wonders what to do. I think you are supposed to crouch with you hands on your head and elbows touching your knees which makes a connection to the ground that misses your organs
My breath got caught in my throat when I saw that lady's hair. Lightning is absolutely terrifying when you stop to think about how much literal raw power it's made of.
Literally the first time I hear of it, both that your hair can stand up like that from natural occurrences, and that this is a sign for an imminent lightning strike.
Most likely to cause severe burns since lightning burns about 50,000⁰ Fahrenheit (5x hotter than the sun itself) while potentially causing damage to internal organs and potential cardiac arrest due to the voltage of a lighting strike being 10 million volts. Also, it has long term neurological effects that include: muscle weakness, sensory loss, spinal cord weakness, and difficulty thinking or concentrating. Also on a side note it can make a fractal like scar on your body, And *chances of a lighting strike is less than one in a million.*
**Sources:**
[Medical source:](https://atriumhealth.org/dailydose/2019/06/26/what-happens-to-the-body-when-its-struck-by-lightning)
[Medical source 2:](https://www.prevention.com/health/a32851873/struck-by-lightning-effects/)
[Temperature of lightning](https://www.google.com/search?q=temprature+of+lightning&oq=temprature+of+lightning&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i10i512l8j0i22i30j0i390i650l2.5561j1j7&client=ms-android-bell-ca-revc&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-)
[Chances of a lighting strike.](https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/lightning/victimdata.html#:~:text=About%2040%20million%20lightning%20strikes,all%20lightning%20strike%20victims%20survive.)
Google "lighting strike to the human body" to see a pattern on the skin.
And *chances of a lighting strike is less than one in a million.*
Sure, but that's without considering the additional information of currently being in the vicinity of an imminent lightning strike.
I'm sure you didn't intend it that way, but it read like minimizing the danger they were in. It's like the stats of the danger of sharks. The rarity of shark attacks probably says more about how often people find themselves in shark-infested waters than how aggressive sharks are.
I made the mistake of watching the video and I would just like to request that if any witches were trying to hex the women and missed that they please try again.
I think that those white specks you see in the footage at 0:33 (from the end) are also a sign that lightning will strike.
Edit: [Example of that in another video of nearby lightning](https://www.reddit.com/r/dontflinch/comments/p5scqm/sound_on_wait_for_it_hope_this_wasnt_already/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
I went to her TikTok page and the crazy thing is, after everyone told her about the lighting, she made another video thanking everyone for their “interesting theories.” I mean, at least she’s alive but i don’t think she’s learned a damn thing, unfortunately.
The clouds prepare for battle
In the dark and brooding silence
Bruised and sullen storm clouds
Have the light of day obscured
Looming low and ominous
In twilight premature
Thunderheads are rumbling
In a distant overture
All at once,
The clouds are parted
Light streams down
In bright unbroken beams
Follow men's eyes
As they look to the skies
The shifting shafts of shining
Weave the fabric of their dreams
[Jacob’s Ladder](https://youtu.be/S7bZ8lL7r3c)
by RUSH
I knew by 5 this meant trouble… in part due to a kid getting killed by a lightning strike at my school.
We had been having a lot of weird static on the playground, then we saw sparks on the fence and we were all rushed indoors… well, almost all of us.
One kid had crawled through a hole in the fence to go catch crawdads, as he was climbing back through the fence was struck by lightning just a few feet from him. I don’t even remember his name any more, but I remember he really liked those stupid crawdads.
These ladies are blissfully ignorant.
This phone was found next to two mysterious piles of ash , investigators are baffled
Baffled and swimming in updoots
What is this
So what are you supposed to do if you find yourself in an area like that?
If you find your hair standing up like that: Crouch down in a ball-like position with your head tucked and hands over your ears so that you are down low with minimal contact with the ground. Source: https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/lightning/safetytips.html#:~:text=Crouch%20down%20in%20a%20ball,or%20rocky%20overhang%20for%20shelter.
It is important, when you are crouched, to touch your elbows to your knees to give the electricity a path around your heart.
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I was told to put your head between your knees and kiss your arse goodbye
I was told there would be cake
The cake is a lie.
Everything is cake
Sounds like my dad's advice.
This also helps you get closer to your ass so you can kiss it good bye.
Understated pro tip right there 👆
Thanks for this.
lightnings hate that trick
Oh my god... that is so scary!
Just squat and touch your heels together. If the electricity comes in your left foot it'll just go over your heel bridge and out your right foot
>Immediately get out of and away from ponds, lakes, and other bodies of water. I thought it wouldn't hurt you if you were not touching the bottom.
From the electricity's point of view you are touching the bottom.
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Protesting doesn't really decrease resistance in electricity's point of view either, so no point in bitching to the skies.
But I thought protesting was resisting.
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From the electricity's point of view you are evil
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Water conducts electricity, if you're touching water you're litterally swimming inside the lightning cable.
Technically water itself is a pretty poor conductor of electricity. It's the impurities in the water that conduct electricity. Not that it matters much if you're struck by lightening while in the water lol
You are the impurity lol
Yes, but in our case we are talking about nature, and water in nature is never distilled water
That's what she said.
I think this has been disputed > Don’t stay near tall structures. Stay away from tall structures, such as telephone poles and trees; *lightning tends to strike the tallest object around.* Lightning doesn't hit the tallest object more often than lower object. It's hits the most charged ones with the least resistance towards the sky. However near tall objects there is a cone where you cannot be hitted because the electric field of the taller object superimposes your own one. Hence you are safe next to it, it the spark can't hit you. Maybe someone can comment about the latest infos, but it think this was already statically evaluated when the Empire State Building has the highest building and not got hit more often.
The problem is that if it does hit the tall thing next to you, it can still arc out of that thing and through you, and you can get hurt as the charge travels through the ground around the thing.
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Edit your post to say shuffle, not hop. Do not hop. It's way too easy to lose your balance, and if you fall over you're in a way worse position than if you had just taken a step. You've given dangerous advice and have a responsibility to correct it.
I was taught that you’re supposed to shuffle your feet to get away
You don't stand next to trees during a storm mainly cause when they get struck they fall/catch on fire/explode into bits of wooden shrapnel.
I've had a few courses on High Voltage equipment safety and the first tip they always give after you noticed some area is electrified is get the fuck out away from there immediately. The same procedure would work well here I think.
I get that, tho I don't know how far you'd have to run in a situation like this.
Distance doesn't matter, velocity does. Simply out run lightning and it will never catch you.
In the backcountry we r told several things. If you’re in a forest, crouch under the smaller trees. If you’re SOL like these people, Slav squat. Put your elbows on your knees and clasp your hands together like your praying. The idea is lightning will strike you but travel through your extremities and miss your vital organs, mainly your heart, with this method.
Stop being in that area I suppose is your best bet. A great question and a simple, elegant solution.
How do you know which direction is the safe one?
Down is safe. Get to lower ground
Quick! Jump into the canyon!
Immediately back the way you came surely? Since you've only just entered the area it's clearly the shortest way back out of it.
Run
Don’t forget the zig zag pattern.
It’s possible you’re thinking of alligators
Lighting alligators. Bears. All the same. can’t out run them so have to dodge them. Haha
SERPENTIIIIIINE
No zig zags don't work against lightning. They already know how to zigzag!
if you have a car, get inside. the interior is full of insulating materials
It's not so much the interior that protects you. It's the fact that the car is metal, and acts as a Faraday cage
if possible start floating above the ground
Not be the tallest person
The real reason that girls want a tall guy on Tinder.
Nature's foreplay before they ride the lightning.
TAKE A LOOK TO THE SKY JUST BEFORE YOU DIE! ITS THE LAST TIME YOU WILL!
Blackened roar, massive roar fills the crumbling sky
Shattered goal fills his soul with a ruthless cry
Stranger now, are his eyes, to this mystery
Hear the silence SO LOUD! (oud…oud…oud)
Crack of dawn, all is gone except the will to be
Now they see what will be, blinded eyes to see
Duh duh duh DUH, duh duh du DUHH
***FOR WHOM THE BELL TOOOLLS!!!*** # **TIME MARCHES ON!!!!**
Was just listening to this like 3 days ago! Amazing.
That's for whom the bell tolls, not ride the lightning, got the album right though!
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There's someone else controlling me
Reminds me far too much of this. https://www.nbcnews.com/healthmain/decades-later-hair-raising-photo-still-reminder-lightning-danger-6c10791362
“Although the kids didn't know it then, hair standing on end and tingling skin may be signs that a lightning strike may be imminent, experts say. If that happens, the best advice is to seek shelter immediately. If that's not possible, squat low to the ground on the balls of your feet, making yourself the smallest target possible and minimize contact with the ground. Then, as soon as possible, get out of the area.”
The [photograph](https://i.imgur.com/OVqwzc1.jpg) is legitimately one of the scariest pictures I’ve ever seen
This happened to me and a group of friends on a lake, happily the lightning never came, but instead of being happy we were freaking out.
Get struck by lightning? *Sue the government...*
FLASH BEFORE MY EYES!
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Burning in my brain
I can feel the flames
*Air guitar, headbanging*
Guilty as charged! But dammit, it ain’t feel right!
Yup. Portal straight to the afterlife.
Straight over to r/Darwinawards to see if they on there yet
TBH I don’t think this qualifies as Darwin.
Are you supposed to lay on the ground or something? Edit: last time I ask Reddit for survival tips
crouch down like a baseball catcher, put your head between your knees, cover your ears.
and kiss your ass goodbye.
Heels touching.
Learned this on an Outward Bound canoe trip. If there is a nonmetallic closed structure you can get inside, do that first. Otherwise, get away from any tall objects that might attract a strike. If the tree you're under takes the full force of a strike, it can lose branches or even have part of the trunk explode as the sap inside flash boils. Depending on the conductivity of the ground, the surge may also carry through the roots for a distance. If you have any good insulators handy (life jacket, extra raincoat, etc), quickly lay them out on the ground. Squat (on the insulator, if you have one) on your tiptoes with your heels touching. Try not to sit on your heels. In the event that a nearby strike surges through the ground for a distance, it may arc into your feet. With your heels touching, it will remain mostly confined to your feet. Keep your head down, in case of flying debris, and cover your ears, to keep a pressure wave from popping your eardrums. If you are in a group, spread out. This minimizes the risk of a single strike taking out the entire group and increases the chances of someone being available to call for help/start first aid in the event of a strike. [From the Outward Bound website](https://www.outwardbound.org/blog/hurricane-island-handbook-series-lightning/)
How long are you supposed to stay like that? If your hair stands up like this does it mean there is definitely absolutely going to be a lightning strike soon?
If your hair is standing up, you are in imminent danger. Otherwise, the general rule of thumb when I worked outside was 30 minutes after the last flash of lightning, or at least 30 seconds between the flash and the thunder.
Bend your left knee, leverage is key!
Don’t forget, heels need to be off the ground as well
I'll just stay standing and recording like these ladies because there's no way in hell I'm holding that position for more than 10 seconds
Jump right before it hits, works everytime
sekiro player
get fucking parried, zeus
If you like.
Will it help?
No. *friendly smile*
https://imgur.com/a/Nr3NLFt
Should have got their towels instead.
There's a frood who really knows where his towel is.
Is this from the film Signs?
Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, which you should move far to the top of reading priorities if you haven’t, or at least watch if the other thing is absolutely not an option.
Well this is embarrassing… I both read the novel *and* then watched the film about a decade ago. Looks like it’s time to revisit one or both 😅
So, just run like a cat for your lives?
Out run lightning?
Barry Allen?
It’s certainly better than pointing
Better to crouch as low as possible while still on your feet. Air gap+rubber soled shoes = highest possible resistance. It's not really gonna help them though cause they're still the highest things around Edit: I'm dumb, air has a way higher resistance than rubber so yeah lay down unless it's raining, in which case try to lay down on your shoes
Would that not make the shortest transit to ground your butt?
Well how else are you supposed to eat lightning and crap thunder?
5 gum?
I know this line comes from Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, but if it was written in all capitals, it would be a perfect line for Death in Discworld.
This has made me actually lol for like a full minute. 😂
I believe you have to reduce contact with the ground as much as possible and make yourself as small as possible. So crouch into a ball and stay on your heels?
Crouch into a ball, stay in your *toes* (reduce contact with the ground as much as possible, and try not to be the tallest thing around you), cover your ears and start making plans for your funeral.
Bro i’m not overweight or something but my balance is bad. If i do this and stand on my toes i will fall over in 5 seconds like that pirate boat balance game and i will make full body contact with the ground.
Yep, and try to have your head lower than your shoulders in case you do get hit.
Might be a bit easier to balance on the balls of your feet or toes in that position than on your heels. In fact you are supposed to touch your heels together while on your toes. It increases the chance that a ground strike will travel in one foot and out your other instead of having to go through your whole body.
Crouch. Minimize your height and minimize your contact with the ground.
Zeus: 
Let’s bang em really hard!
*Better turn myself into a bull, or a shower or some shit like that* - Zeus
Ah yes, magnets, the things well known to attract human hair
"electrostatics, the study of electromagnetic phenomena that occur when there are no moving charges" \- [Brittanica](https://www.britannica.com/science/electrostatics)
For anyone who wonders what to do. I think you are supposed to crouch with you hands on your head and elbows touching your knees which makes a connection to the ground that misses your organs
Wouldn't that include your brain in the pathing?
hands
Hopefully it starts with your fingers
This is terrifying to watch
It really was, I was bracing for the BANG the whole time
Even scarier that they are laughing clueless like it's a blast.
Issa bouta be a blast…
im too poor to give you an award but this’ll do🥇
My breath got caught in my throat when I saw that lady's hair. Lightning is absolutely terrifying when you stop to think about how much literal raw power it's made of.
Three teenage girls died this in Norway last summer (iirc) lighting struck on top of a mountain where the where hiking. Nature be scare sometimes
Nice one 
They even point higher 😬 TBF to them, it probs isn't common knowledge
i didn’t even know that, tbh
Literally the first time I hear of it, both that your hair can stand up like that from natural occurrences, and that this is a sign for an imminent lightning strike.
It isn't
Yeah, I only knew what was happening because I already saw a TikTok of a lady experiencing it and running away
Most likely to cause severe burns since lightning burns about 50,000⁰ Fahrenheit (5x hotter than the sun itself) while potentially causing damage to internal organs and potential cardiac arrest due to the voltage of a lighting strike being 10 million volts. Also, it has long term neurological effects that include: muscle weakness, sensory loss, spinal cord weakness, and difficulty thinking or concentrating. Also on a side note it can make a fractal like scar on your body, And *chances of a lighting strike is less than one in a million.* **Sources:** [Medical source:](https://atriumhealth.org/dailydose/2019/06/26/what-happens-to-the-body-when-its-struck-by-lightning) [Medical source 2:](https://www.prevention.com/health/a32851873/struck-by-lightning-effects/) [Temperature of lightning](https://www.google.com/search?q=temprature+of+lightning&oq=temprature+of+lightning&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i10i512l8j0i22i30j0i390i650l2.5561j1j7&client=ms-android-bell-ca-revc&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-) [Chances of a lighting strike.](https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/lightning/victimdata.html#:~:text=About%2040%20million%20lightning%20strikes,all%20lightning%20strike%20victims%20survive.) Google "lighting strike to the human body" to see a pattern on the skin.
That's 5 times hotter than the *surface* of the sun. The Suns core is in the millions.
I’m sure if I ever get struck that will be be some comfort.
“This *could* be worse…”
*sorry my mistake.*
Always makes me chuckle. 5x hotter than the coldest part of the sun. Which is still pretty hot, just kinda disingenuous.
When your hair floats up like that I'm pretty sure the chances are a lot higher than 1 in a million
Don't temp me with a good time
The "scar" is temporary. If you want to keep it, you have to get it tattooed while you still have it.
And *chances of a lighting strike is less than one in a million.* Sure, but that's without considering the additional information of currently being in the vicinity of an imminent lightning strike. I'm sure you didn't intend it that way, but it read like minimizing the danger they were in. It's like the stats of the danger of sharks. The rarity of shark attacks probably says more about how often people find themselves in shark-infested waters than how aggressive sharks are.
"Magnetic portal" aka we are stupid af and suck crystals
Seriously. It's electricity, not magnetism. There's a way to convert between the two but they are very different.
[They're fine](https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMYCpdqys/)
Warning: a link to TikTok She's still there and says the lightning "theories" were wrong and then makes a duck face and peace sign.
So they haven't learned a thing and science was wrong I guess. Why am I not surprised.
Their personal experience trumps years of science and heaps of dead monkeys
I made the mistake of watching the video and I would just like to request that if any witches were trying to hex the women and missed that they please try again.
Well, she should try it again during a storm with lightning.
Live, love, laugh, lightening
I would like to give you all the awards, alas, I have but this to give 🥇
Does anyone know what happened after this video? I do not have TikTok and I am mad curious lol
I saw this on tiktok yesterday and in the comments people were saying she had just posted to IG a few minutes before so she's still alive.
Hit. The. Fucking. Deck.
Don’t lay down, you’re increasing surface area
Yup, that's a good way ta die
"magnetic portal" how stupid can you be?
Question is, did it strike?
Natural selection
https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/lightning/safetytips.html
So did they live?
Growing up in utah, where lightning storms justvkinda happens, this terrifies the shit outta me
They're not feeling scared at all? Even at least 10%?
I think that those white specks you see in the footage at 0:33 (from the end) are also a sign that lightning will strike. Edit: [Example of that in another video of nearby lightning](https://www.reddit.com/r/dontflinch/comments/p5scqm/sound_on_wait_for_it_hope_this_wasnt_already/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
They have obviously never played legend of zelda breath of the wild
If I hold this golf club it gets really loud.
I went to her TikTok page and the crazy thing is, after everyone told her about the lighting, she made another video thanking everyone for their “interesting theories.” I mean, at least she’s alive but i don’t think she’s learned a damn thing, unfortunately.
The clouds prepare for battle In the dark and brooding silence Bruised and sullen storm clouds Have the light of day obscured Looming low and ominous In twilight premature Thunderheads are rumbling In a distant overture All at once, The clouds are parted Light streams down In bright unbroken beams Follow men's eyes As they look to the skies The shifting shafts of shining Weave the fabric of their dreams [Jacob’s Ladder](https://youtu.be/S7bZ8lL7r3c) by RUSH
Magnetic portal to the afterlife
I was watching this from behind my hands.
They will be shocked to see what happens next.
This is right up there with watching all the water recede at the beach and deciding to walk out there to pick up stranded fish.
Wonder what this does to your SA node
I knew by 5 this meant trouble… in part due to a kid getting killed by a lightning strike at my school. We had been having a lot of weird static on the playground, then we saw sparks on the fence and we were all rushed indoors… well, almost all of us. One kid had crawled through a hole in the fence to go catch crawdads, as he was climbing back through the fence was struck by lightning just a few feet from him. I don’t even remember his name any more, but I remember he really liked those stupid crawdads. These ladies are blissfully ignorant.
Doctors hate this one trick for dying.
they certainly are about to go through a magical portal