Lightning safety

[geneobike]

I have a good idea about the normal everyday lightning safety stuff, but if your camping and severe storms roll thru at night, what do MotoCampers do? don't park your motorcyle to close to the tent ect.? just ride it out?

[Ironheadziggy76]

Excellent question, I have often wondered the same thing while trying to sleep during a thunderstorm. :eek:

I always try to leave enough distance between the bike and the tent in the event the bike falls over for some reason. Hopefully it will be the lightning rod and not the tent.

[Mellow]

I've only camping in a couple... I figure being lower to the ground than the surrounding trees/structures is key...

[G wizz]

Don't pitch your tent near any tall trees, or one that's stasnding out by itself. If lightining is going to strike, it'll pick one of those.
Seen it happen in a campground once ... lightining struck a tree under which a guy had pitched his tent ... when it hit, it blew the guy clean out of his tent. He got a free ride to the hospital ...

G wizz

[Okie34]

Here's a link that SPC Meteorologist Chuck Doswell wrote about camping in Thunderstorms. Pretty much is tells you the same things we've always heard.

http://www.cimms.ou.edu/~doswell/tstm_camping_safety.html

P^

-- JD