| You may not think about this, but camping | | | | your odds are even worse. You will want to think |
| requires a lot of common sense. You will need to | | | | about the safety by taking cover. Even though |
| use basic education that you have acquired | | | | your odds of being struck (even at higher risks) |
| through out your years of school so that you can | | | | are very low, you will need to still take |
| avoid doing anything that is basically dumb. You will | | | | precautions because it is not something that you |
| find that there are a lot of dangers that lurk in | | | | can predict. |
| the woods and you will find that the most | | | | Being struck can end up seriously hurting a person |
| commonly found dangers include the climbing | | | | and could end up killing them, depending on the |
| aspect and lightening. | | | | voltage. You will want to consider that this odds |
| Did you know that there are over a hundred | | | | or not something that you will want to mess with. |
| people who die in a year because they were | | | | As for the second major danger, you will want to |
| struck by lightening? You will want to make sure | | | | consider that you need to have common sense in |
| that you use your common sense when it comes | | | | the safety matters of hiking. |
| to being outside in an electrical storm. You will also | | | | Obviously, you don't need to stand too close to a |
| find that the lighting will occur mostly in the clouds, | | | | cliff, and you never know when a gust of wind |
| but there are going to be a few strikes every | | | | will knock you down. You don't want to put your |
| now and then. If you happen to be the tallest | | | | life at risk just for a thrill. You will need to think |
| thing around like standing on top of an open | | | | about how sturdy the mountain side is before you |
| mountain site, you will find that your odds of | | | | climb it, because you never know about rather or |
| getting hit by lightening are very high. This is | | | | not your stepping area will give away. You will also |
| because of all the salt water that is in an human | | | | find that even if you don't get seriously hurt from |
| body will attract the lightening and forms a | | | | a fall, you are now at danger for parasites and |
| conductor. You will find that when you are wet, | | | | infections from the open cuts and scrapes. |