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Originally Posted by canadaump6
I had a game this year where I was on the bases, and we kept getting flashes of streak lightening behind the backstop where my partner was not facing.
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Our state high school association has adopted a rule that states that if any game official, not just the PU or head referee, sees lightning or hears thunder the game stops - period. Then you wait 30 minutes from the last flash of lightning or clap of thunder before restarting the game. The local Little League District has adopted the same policy. When I work a game for a league that has no policy, I use that same policy. If Mother Nature does not allow you to restart, too bad. Don't mess with Mother Nature. If the players and coaches don't care about their own safety, I care about mine. Lightning can kill you and you don't screw around with it.
If you see lightning and don't stop the game, I hope you have lots of money or really good liability insurance. If something bad happens, you're going to need one or the other or both.
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Originally Posted by canadaump6
Then I say "well I'm going inside" and tells me "fine, go". I take a few steps to leave, then decide "no that's stupid too. We are partners and have to stay together". So we wait the ten minutes, then resume the game. Then in between innings later, we are standing together discussing the weather, and a streak of lightening goes through the sky that he sees. He calls the game and we go home.
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Does your partner have a death wish. If your partner wants to be a crispy umpire, let him. If you're close enough to see lightning, you're close enough to get fried. Refer your partner to this site:
http://www.lightningsafety.com/nlsi_pls/ncaa.html or
http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/index.htm