Door and window handles, radio dials, CB microphones, gearshifts, steering wheels, and other inside-to-outside metal objects should be left alone during close-in lightning events.
We suggest pulling off to the side of the road in a safe manner, turning on the emergency blinkers, turning off the engine, putting one's hands in one's lap, and waiting out the storm. Heavy Equipment. Backhoes, bulldozers, loaders, graders, scrapers, mowers, and other heavy equipment that employ an enclosed rollover systems canopy ROPS are safe in nearby electrical storms.
The operator should shut down the equipment, close the doors, and sit with hands in lap, waiting out the storm. In no circumstances during close-in lightning should the operator attempt to step off the equipment to the ground in an attempt to find another shelter. Very dangerous step voltage and touch voltage situations are created when a "dual pathway to ground" is created. Lightning voltages will attempt to equalize themselves, and they may go through a person in order to do so.
Smaller equipment without a ROPS is not safe. Small riding mowers, golf cars, and utility wagons are examples of unsafe vehicles. Rubber tires provide zero safety from lightning.
After all, lightning has traveled for miles through the sky: four or five inches of rubber is no insulation whatsoever. People should safely abandon this machinery and get into a safe shelter.
School Buses. Fortunately, lightning strikes in cars are rare. And when it comes to a car with a fixed metal roof, nothing can happen to the occupants, as the metal body of a car resembles a Faraday cage. The body, which acts as an electrical conductor, ensures that the occupants do not receive a shock. The bright lightning can temporarily blind the occupants and the impact can damage the paintwork of the exterior and the tires.
You feel a lot less comfortable in a convertible during a thunderstorm. Yet you are also safe in it according to the German magazine Auto Motor und Sport, but only with closed roof. Even then, convertible drivers benefit from the protective effect of the Faraday cage: the metal in the convertible roof, the frame of the windscreen and any permanently mounted roll bars provide sufficient protection.
According to the German magazine, traces of fire were occasionally found in the convertible top during high-voltage tests, but the occupants were unharmed. The weather service urges people to stay off corded phones, turn off electrical appliances and avoid using water. You never know where that path will be.
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