*Lighting* - DONT DO
All fields should do as the Little League
Organization in most Texas areas do. They
have lighting meters, if strike within 7
miles, hold game up and wait till you have
at least 20 minutes of nothing within 7
miles. Do not know why 7 miles was chosen
as saftey factor, but have always been told
that.
I was in Air Force in Lake Charles, La. on
the field during lighting when the 3rd baseman
and left fielder were hit. 3B person died,
leftfielder survived. 3b persons shoes were
smoking. Now as an umpire, if I can see the
lighting, I hold up. Not pretty sight. JMO,
but stay out of it.
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glen _______________________________
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things
that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover."
--Mark Twain.
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