Chuck Verzyl, age 12, of Forsyth.  Georgia, for a question:

Where is the safest place to be when it’s lightning?

You are quite safe from lightning in any steel framed building. You are safe in an airplane, even though lightning likes to strike a plane in the air.

It may knock out the plane s radio and make pit marks on the metal coat of the planes But it will not damage the passengers inside the metal frame.

Another safe place is inside an automobile. Here, too, you are protected inside a metal frame. The inside of an ordinary building is safe so long as it has lightning rods. Such a rod pokes above the building and runs down the side into the ground. A TV antenna may be grounded and used as a lightning rod.

An antenna that is not grounded is a lightning hazard. Wooden buildings without lightning rods are a great hazard. Never stand under a tree or fix your TV antenna during a storm, Keep off the roof and stay away from the water.