Lightning Strikes: Staying Safe Under Stormy Skies - Softcover

Renner, Jeff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0898867886 ISBN 13: 9780898867886

Publisher: Mountaineers Books, 2002

Synopsis

* Practical safety strategies for everyone who recreates or works outdoors

* A quick, highly-informative read with interesting anecdotes, myths, and lore about lightning

* Written by award-winning author and meteorologist Jeff Renner
Discover the risks of thunder, thunderstorm winds, lightning, and flashfloods. Lightning Strikes reviews how thunderstorms form, explains the different types of storms, and provides a guide for staying safe using the four A's (Anticipate, Assess, Act, and Aid). Interwoven throughout the text are thought-provoking questions to help readers assess dangerous situations and form strategies to make sound decisions.
Lightning Strikes livens its safety advice with often-humorous lore dating back to ancient Greece. This useful how-to book will appeal to anyone who spends time outdoors -- hikers, climbers, golfers, construction workers -- and has felt threatened by lightning.

About this title

About the Author

JEFF RENNER is a meteorologist for the KING 5 television station in Seattle, Washington. He is an avid skier, climber, hiker, and flight instructor.

Review

"The book offers practical strategies for everyone who works or plays outdoors, is a quick, highly informative read and includes lightning lore and myths, anecdotes and lightning survival stories."
- Ft. Collins Coloradoan

"[Renner] offers practical strategies for anyone who spends time outdoors."
-Olympian

"From lightning lore and myths to survival stories and...what to do during a storm, this is an important guide."
-Bookwatch

"[Renner] fills page after page with interesting storm facts, photos and drawings that will make you the family thunderstorm expert."
-East Oregonian

"This book is packed with diagrams and illustrations...The book is most useful in providing methodical tips for assessing the weather and strategies for keeping out of harm's way."
-Tacoma News-Tribune (also appeared in the Olympian and the Bremerton Sun)

"Renner offers practical advice for hikers, campers, golfers and anyone who plays in the outdoors."
-Cedar Rapids (IA) Gazette [also appeared in the Iowa City (IA) Gazette]

"This information-packed book would make a nice text for an introductory meteorology course, yet is consistently carried by a surprisingly enjoyable narrative...Renner educates readers well about the dangers of lightning in the outdoors."
-Woodland Hills Daily News

"Every backpacker and hike leader should read Lightning Strikes before their next outing. It's a chance to learn and have a ball."
-Pacific Crest Trail Communicator

"Lightning Strikes...could ultimately help readers recognize and avoid risky weather."
-Palm Beach Post (Also ran in syndication)

Edition details

• Publisher: Mountaineers Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0898867886
• ISBN 13: 9780898867886
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144