If Your Hair Gets Electric While Outside, Run Away!

From time to time, people on social media your hair is standing on end We see the videos. While the sudden airing of your hair creates a surprising and funny situation, you may not understand what is happening. If it happened to you, you may know what to do, but if you haven’t encountered such a situation yet, you can consider yourself lucky.

Ventilation of hair and body feathers What is its connection with lightning?If you’re wondering how our hair suddenly feels like it’s about to fly off and we feel lethargic, let’s take you this way. We also explained how to protect yourself from lightning, starting from static electricity and connecting this situation with lightning.

First, let’s watch this video where an example event takes place.

First of all, “What is static electricity?” Let’s start with so that we can establish the connection with lightning more easily.

Actually all of us static We experience this situation frequently in our daily lives. Our hair getting electrified while wearing a sweater or a plastic comb pulling our hair is something we see more frequently, especially in children. Her hair gets electrified while sliding down the slide An obvious example of static electricity.

Atoms in substances have positive and negative charges, and these charges are equal to each other. Separation of positive and negative charges In this case, static electricity occurs. In the contact of two substances, an excess positive charge is left on one side and a negative charge is left on the other side. When substances are separated from each other, there is an excess of electrons on one side and a deficiency of electrons on the other. In this case, two separate charges attract each other and travel through the insulating air. They want to discharge the load by making sparks..

In cases where the potential difference is low – such as sweaters and hair samples – no danger is encountered. However Lightning shock or work accidents may occur when the potential difference is large, which creates great dangers.

Lightning is the result of static electricity, not the anger of Zeus.

We can see natural static in lightning. In stormy weather, the collision of water droplets and ice crystals with each other creates static electricity. The cloud, whose lower part is negatively charged and its upper part is positively charged, is pulled down and discharge of static electric charges As a result, lightning occurs. During the discharge of high voltage in the cloud to the ground, approximately 30 thousand amperes current is transferred.

Even if you are a Road Runner, you cannot escape from lightning, which travels in approximately 30 milliseconds.

Although it seems impossible to escape from lightning, we have good news that lightning gives warnings before it strikes. It gives us time to protect ourselves.. The hair standing on end, which is also the subject of our content, is one of the lightning’s ways of saying “I’m coming”.

crackling or buzz If you hear sounds like or If your skin hurts You can tell when lightning is coming. Also, although it may seem strange, it is in your mouth a metallic taste you can feel it. smells like chlorine smell ozone, you start to feel dizzy It is a sign that lightning is near.

How will we be protected from lightning if we are not faster than light?

Being in open land and at sea, using heavy machinery in the field, talking on the phone, and trying to repair electrical appliances are the places where the risk of being struck by lightning is highest. Let’s say your hair becomes frizzy or you experience any of the other symptoms. “What do we need to do to protect ourselves from lightning?” If so, here are the answers:

• Enter a building or vehicle immediately. If you do not have a place to shelter, kneel on the ground, but never lie down on the ground. Bring your feet together, stand on tiptoe and close your head between your knees. Your aim should be to take up as little space as possible.
• Stay away from trees. If you are in the forest, instead of going under a tree alone, take shelter in the gaps between low tree clusters or under the tree closest to the ground.
• Do not touch metal or any object that can generate electricity.
• If you are in a crowd, keep a distance of at least 1.5 meters from everyone else.
• If you are at home, close the windows and doors.
• Stay away from stoves, radiators, fireplaces, metal pipes, sinks, plug-in appliances and corded phones.
• Do not wash dishes or take a shower.
• “I had laundry on the line, let me get it before it rains.” Don’t say that and stay away from the clothesline.
• Even if you are in the vehicle, do not move or get out of the vehicle. However, be careful that the metal frame does not come into contact with your body.

As with many issues, there are misconceptions about lightning strikes.

You may have read or heard that rubber-soled shoes will protect you from lightning strikes. But you should know that this is of no use. Moreover Lightning will not strike the same spot twice There is also a common belief about. We’re sorry but we have to say we shouldn’t rely on it. There are many cases where lightning strikes the same spot twice.

Is our chance of meeting lightning as distant as red snow?

The probability of lightning striking you is approximately It is 1 in 600 thousand. The probability of at least one lightning strike during your lifetime is 1 in 3 thousand. Of course, these possibilities may vary depending on your environment. When we look at people who are struck by lightning, 10% of them result in death, and 70% of them suffer long-term damage. In Turkey, as a result of lightning strike The number of deaths in 1 year is approximately 90.

Damages may not be limited to this. In 1975, while a group of friends were climbing Moro Rock in the Sierra Nevada region of California, two sisters’ hair stood on end. Even though there were people fainting as a result of lightning strike, the sisters returned home, but after the incident They get depressed and commit suicide.. Of course, we don’t know if this has anything to do with lightning. Scientists continue to do research on it.

Although a lightning strike does not always result in death, it can cause serious damage.

Some clinical findings as a result of research Lightning strike affects organs is showing. Loss or changes in consciousness, not remembering the moment of the event, brain edema, paralysis, respiratory arrest, and drowsiness may occur. Many disorders such as severe burns, compartment syndrome, bone fractures, kidney failure, some eye defects such as cataracts, hearing loss, personality changes and speech loss can also be observed.

We have examined every detail of the lightning strike and after seeing the serious situations that can happen to us, we wish you to be more careful, especially in open areas, and run to the most appropriate place.