[BC] 30/30 Lightning safety rule.

[Mike McCarthy]

I would agree with the concept, but disagree in practice.  You can hear 
crashes several hundred miles away as well as be probably misled about 
where the activity is located.  We'd never get any work done...

MM

At 08:45 AM 7/23/2006 -0400, WFIFeng at aol.com wrote
>In a message dated 07/22/2006 8:06:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>Towers at mre.com writes:
>
> > As one who has been on a tower as a fast approaching storm struck, I
> >  realize it hard to visually watch the skies and react accordingly when 
> the
> >  storm sneaks up on the site.  Hence the need to monitor the WX if 
> there is
> >  a risk for storm activity.
>
>Tuned to a weak or absent signal at the low-end of the band, a pocket
>transistor AM radio works very well as a "quick & dirty" storm detector. 
>You can hear
>the static crashes well in advance of the storm's arrival.
>
>Willie...
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