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I agree completely. Call the game and take the chance of getting "disciplined" before taking the chance of having you or someone else hurt due to lightning.
7 or 8 years ago, I was in a tournament and we could see the storm blowing in. I started seeing the lightning up in the clouds and told the TD who was watching the game. He told me to keep on playing, the lightning meter said it was over 20 miles away. I went back to him a couple of minutes later and told him I was clearing the field, because there was no way that lightning was 20 miles off. The coaches agreed and the people started going to the cars. A few minutes, a lightning strike hit a tree in the parking area where the teams' cars were. It destroyed the tree and it fell on a few cars under it. Now, I don't mess with the stuff at all. They can choose not to use me anymore, but at least the fans, players and myself will be alive to know I can't call with that group of umpires anymore.
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Rick
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