Sunday News Lancaster, PA, July 28th, 2002
So there's a storm. Rain. Thunder. Lightning.
What better way for kids to stay connected to their friends than to stay at home and click on the computer, right?!
Wrong, according to the August issue of Parenting magazine in its regular feature, "CyberSmarts."
"Lightning's charge can travel through the wires of any appliance that's plugged into the wall, potentially harming anyone touching it," says Richard Kithil, president and chief executive officer of the National Lightning Safety Institute," the magazine reported. A laptop computer, run on a battery, however, is fine.
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