[KSagal]

You still have not answered my question, but you add your own. How narcissistic.

I know you are afraid to answer the simple question, "Do you think that Lily is more likely to hurt herself in a lightening storm gliding home from church, between buildings and trees, by squatting in ditch or by being struck by lightening?" Still, I would like you to marshal up the courage and fortitude to answer it honestly.

As for yours...

1. I agree, standing on a segway in a local lightening storm is more likely to get you struck than squatting in a ditch, however if doing it while gliding between buildings and trees, then the advantage is nullified.

So, in the situation presented by the OP, I would glide home.

2. I agree that the squatting position is safer than the standing upright in the scenario offered, but again, that is only a construct of yours, never presented by the OP.

Also, I would not suggest it is safer to do anything that cannot be done by the recipient of my advice to do it. That is disrespectful. I would not suggest to a person in a wheelchair they should run away up the stairs to escape a flood, while I might suggest it to an able bodied person. To the wheelchaired person, I might suggest another escape route, or a way to avoid the flood.

So, while it might be safer to squat than stand in this situation, I might not suggest it to this person, nor myself, and rather take the suggestion that you quoted that a safer position in a thunder storm is not safe, and that she, me and others should head for shelter.

3. Squatting in the ditch may not be comfortable for most, but is actually much worse for some than others. Much like suggesting a person take a 75 pound weight up a flight of stairs. Not comfortable for most, but actually dangerous to try for others.

The reference to swimming with sharks is just too stupid to respond to.

4. You have still never answered my question about this particular poster relative to your squatting suggestion. I cannot answer this question until we quantify the actual threats involved.

I believe that this particular poster, and myself as well, would definitely would be more likely to hurt them self by trying to squat in a ditch than simply glide home. Since the squatting will definitely hurt some of us, and the likelihood of actually being struck by lightening even if standing upright on the suggested glide home, is still pretty low. Considering the definate hurt from one squatting, and the unlikely far more dangerous injury (still only 10% die from a stike) I might still suggest they glide home. I know I would.

5. What would I do? I would find it unlikely to be there in the first place, as I do not frequent wide open plains, in thunder storms or not. If I were actually caught in a wide open space, in the middle of a locally hitting lightening storm, and had no escape, I would strive to lower my profile, and would not do this by placing my feet very far apart. But, again, as I have said over and over, the advice may be relatively good, but that does not make it germane to the poster.

Again, you are introducing straw men to this thread, over and over. No one other than you has suggested gliding over hills or even just standing around in a lightening storm. Going home is not the same as standing around or cresting hills for the sake of it.

Much like swimming with feed frenzied sharks has no place in this conversation, as it is another of your straw men, that was created in your own mind, simply as an example of what not to do. Then you intimated, without any validity, that I said or felt it was okay to do.

It is time for you to up your game, or loose me as a sparring partner.