(July 11, 2008)--The National Weather Service says July typically marks the peak in lightning activity and lightning has claimed five young lives in less than a week.
A 16-year-old Georgia youth was riding a bicycle at a summer camp in Colorado when he was struck down on July 3.
Two days later, a 19-year-old was riding a personal watercraft in South Carolina when lightning hit.
The next day, lightning killed a 23-year-old while she was jogging along the shore in Virginia Beach.
On July 7, two 16-year-olds died, one on a family farm in Wisconsin and the other in a North Carolina beach hut, seeking shelter from a storm.
The Weather Service says it's important to seek shelter in a substantial building if there's thunder or the sky looks threatening.
It says picnic shelters, carports, dugouts, sheds and other partially open or small structures are not safe.
It advises people to stay away from metal objects and not to seek shelter under tall isolated trees.
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