Lightning Safety Awareness Week

Skip Voros, Executive Director of the Milwaukee Area Skywarn Association (MASA), provides us with this reminder.

JUNE 21-27, 2009 is LIGHTNING
SAFETY AWARENESS WEEK

Responders and spotters, recall safety is your top priority. Lightning strike victims suffer many 
long-term symptoms; memory loss, sleep disorders, numbness and stiff joints, fatigue, muscle spasms, depression, and the inability to sit for long periods. My suggested links:

All Audiences:   http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov
This NOAA site features handouts, indoor/outdoor safety, teacher tools, audio-video PSA’s, state statistics, sports, kids page, and more.

Medical And Clinic Personnel:   http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic299.htm
Lightning Injury: overview, differential diagnosis, treatment, medication, and  follow-up.
The Latest And Greatest:  (41 pages, 18Mb)  http://www.uic.edu/labs/lightninginjury/LtnInjuries.pdf

Covers medical, meteorological, myths, scientific, and historical. Numerous maps, charts, graphs, and diagrams. Caution for children…. Some injury and burn pictures are graphic.

SOURCE: MASA