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Temple Lightening Safety

KNOW NOW NATURAL DISASTER LIGHTENING

Lightening can take heavy toll of LIFE. In Mugaliwakkam, Tamil Nadu a lightening struck a building under construction that killed 61 & seriously injured 72 Workers.

LIGHTENING SAFETY

  • 1. Lightning is an atmospheric discharge of electricity, which typically occurs during thunderstorms, and sometimes during volcanic eruptions or dust storms.
  • 2. During a thunderstorm, Stay away from metal items like pipes, fences, telephone poles and lines even the refrigerator as lightening will find its way into your house through wires and pipes. Don’t hold an electrical appliance.
  • 3. Do not take a bath or shower during thunderstorm.
  • 4. Do not stand even near the windows of your house when there is thunderstorm outside. As it can strike you,
  • 5. Do you know people have died because lightening struck when they were talking in the phone. Wireless phones are okay to some extent but still the loud noise of the thunder can damage you err drums through phone.

LIGHTENING SAFETY

  • Air Terminals (Lightning Rods)
  • Braided Conductor (Cable)
  • Bonds to metallic bodies
  • Ground Rods or Ground Plates
  • Surge Arrestors

A lightning strike is an electric discharge between the atmosphere and an earth-bound object.[citation needed] They mostly originate in a cumulonimbus cloud and terminate on the ground, called cloud to ground (CG) lightning. A less common type of strike, called ground to cloud (GC), is upward propagating lightning initiated from a tall grounded object and reaches into the clouds. About 25% of all lightning events worldwide are strikes between the atmosphere and earth-bound objects. The bulk of lightning events are intra-cloud (IC) or cloud to cloud (CC), where discharges only occur high in the atmosphere.


A single lightning event is a "flash", which is a complex, multi-stage process, some parts of which are not fully understood. Most cloud to ground flashes only "strike" one physical location, referred to as a "termination". The primary conducting channel, the bright coursing light that may be seen and is called a "strike", is only about one inch in diameter, but because of its extreme brilliance, it often looks much larger to the human eye and in photographs. Lightning discharges are typically miles long, but certain types of horizontal discharges can be upwards of tens of miles in length. The entire flash lasts only a fraction of a second. Most of the early formative and propagation stages are much dimmer and not visible to the human eye.

There are more kinds of SAFETY which are all needed for happy, peaceful & long life.

Read the book for more Information

INNOVATED, CONCEPTUALISED DESIGNED & PRESENTED

to you by Exn Dr M.B.NIRMAL

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