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Trees attract lightening. Best to stay away from them during T-storms. Most golf courses have thunderstorm sirens, when it sounds stop, drop everything, head
by JJMcJ 6y ago
Trees attract lightening. Best to stay away from them during T-storms.
Most golf courses have thunderstorm sirens, when it sounds stop, drop everything, head for club house or lay flat on ground well away from trees.
The pro golfer Lee Trevino https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Trevino https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Trevino was struck by lightening, so yes, it happens. Suffered back problems from the strike. I believe he lost a year on the tour.
- rapnie 6y ago> Trees attract lightening. Best to stay away from them during T-storms. Yes, this is the common-sense advice: don't shelter under a tree. Yet I always wonder looking at all those trees around me standing there for 50-100 years.. how many of these were struck by lighting? Are many trees struck, but without damage showing, or were they just never hit? Maybe I could just shelter under them..