Lightning Safety Awareness Week, June 21-27, 2009

Lightning Safety Awareness Week

The Nation will celebrate its eighth annual National Lightning Safety Awareness Week, June 21-27, 2009.

NOAA states that summer is the peak season for one of the nation’s deadliest weather phenomena lightning. But don’t be fooled, lightning strikes yearround. The goal of their Website is to safeguard U.S. residents from lightning. In the United States, an average of 62 people are killed each year by lightning