Lightning/Thunder Delay

[PeteBooth]

So what do you do when you umpire on fields that have NO lightening meters?

When you see lightening do you call the Game right then and there because there is no equipment available?

The 30/30 rule is an NFHS rule.

The "clock starts" whenever we see lightening or hear a bolt of thunder. If "another one strikes" clock starts over.

It's like this.

One of the officials hears thunder or sees lightening. We call TIME and vacate the premises.

let's say we have waited 25 minutes and THEN we see another bolt of lightening. The 30 minute clock starts over again.

IMO, the 30/30 is as good as any UNLESS as you say the field has adequate equipment, but in this "economic climate" with schools already cutting some sports who has the money to buy expensive equipment.

Pete Booth