Can You Survive A Lightning Strike And yet when you consider what a lightning strike actually does to a person it seems impossible that anyone could survive.

Can you survive a lightning strike A lightning strike can act as a massive fibrillator upsetting the heart s electrical rhythm and causing cardiac arrest.

Can you survive a lightning strike. If you do survive here s a few things you can expect. Stay away from plumbing pipes bathtub shower. Lightning has the ability to strike a house or near a house and impart an electrical charge to the metal pipes used for plumbing. However if you re caught in the open and sense that a lightning strike is about to happen crouching.

Lightning strikes worldwide kill about 24 000 people each year and roughly 240 000 people are injured on an annual basis. Burns aren t the only way lightning will hurt you. But any lightning victim will tell you that the lifelong after effects of a strike are no theme park ride that is if you manage to survive. Lightning strikes kill about 24 000 people worldwide each year and about 240 000 people are injured by lightning and survive.

Greg foot investigates whether a human being can survive when struck by lightning. Here s what you can do to avoid being a lightning strike statistic. Anyone outside near a lightning strike is potentially a victim of ground current.