If you are
outdoors

• Don't be the highest object in the area.
• Avoid the highest object in the area (trees, hilltops, open spaces, exposed sheds). If isolated trees are nearby, crouch down in the open, keeping twice as far away from the tree as it is high.
• Stay away from wire fences, metal clotheslines, railings, telephone or power lines, pipelines or structural steel fabrication.
• Don't take laundry off clotheslines.
• Stay clear of water, oceans, canals, lakes or swimming pools. Leave beaches and small boats.
• Seek shelter or stay low. If possible, go inside a building or a ditch. In open glades, hide under head-high clumps of trees.
• Stay inside your car.
• Drop down if your hair stands on end or if your skin begins to tingle from an electric charge. Lightning may be about to strike you.

 If you are indoors

• Stay indoors.
• Stay away from open doors and windows, fireplaces, radiators, stoves, metal piles and plug-in electrical appliances.
• Avoid the use of electrical equipment such as hair dryers, electric toothbrushes, electric razors and plumbing fixtures.
• Do not use the telephone. Lightning may strike telephone lines, especially in rural areas.