The link below is a National Weather Service website talking not only about lighting safety but also about lightning strike statistics, how to protect yourself, and some very interesting survivor stories.

Lightning Safety

good reminders, Toast.
But not to encouraging if you are caught out away from all the recommended places to go in the event of a thunderstorm.....

Just be sure to stay away from mobile homes. They attract tornados.

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Originally posted by H. Simpson:
Just be sure to stay away from mobile homes. They attract tornados.

I've heard it said that if you're in a trailer and you hear a tornado coming, you should go outside and lie down in a ditch. Actually, that's pretty good advice any time.

98% were outside

Not me! I stay in the house no matter what.