European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 6, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday july 6, 1994 . The stars and stripes Page 9 a Bolt May be by Holden Lewis. Toledo Blade if you re outside and you see lightning nearby or far away and your Arm hairs stand on end and you feel tingly Carl Ojala has some advice stay on your toes. Ojala a geography professor at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti said that tingly feeling and the Arm hairs standing on end mean almost certainly that you re about to be struck by lightning. If you can to get indoors quickly he said stand on your toes and the balls of your feet and Crouch into As Small a Ball As possible. A if it hits you then it will go through you real fast and you might not get killed a said Ojala who teaches a class dealing with severe weather. According to the National climatic data Center Florida ranked first in the number of lightning injuries and deaths from 1959 to 1992. Michigan ranked second. Urban areas Are the most dangerous locations. There Are More people there so More people Are Likely to be struck by lightning. \ the Flatland of the Midwest great Plains and Gulf coast have a lot of thunderstorms a state such As South Dakota might get a lot of lightning strikes but few deaths and injuries because there Arentt Many people a on the other hand a lightning Bolt in a whiplash of lightning strikes the ground in View of the Washington Monument As District of Columbia residents get a free fireworks display during a heatwave. A heavily populated state is More Likely to hit someone. Late Spring and Early summer make up the thunderstorm season in the Midwest. Lightning already has taken a toll. In March two boys in Athens county Ohio were struck by lightning. One died. In june a 16-year-old boy in South Bend ind., died when lightning struck him As he sought shelter under a tree during a thunderstorm. A a two weeks ago 13-year-Ojd Chris Garner of Custar Ohio was hit by lightning As he Rode his bicycle into his driveway. He survived and even jokingly asked Hospital nurses the next Day to Call him shocker. Not everyone is so fortunate. From 1959 through 1992,8,964 people were injured by lightning in the United states and 3,125 were killed according to the National climatic data Center. The Center counts where people were when they were struck. The worst place to be is in an open Field such As a farm or Ball Field its also not Wise to stand under a 1 tree or sit in a boat during a thunderstorm. About once a year an unlucky person in the United states is killed by lightning while talking on the Telephone. One of the strangest events is the literal a Bolt from the Blue a when the Sun is shining and lightning strikes from a thunderhead up to 20 Miles away. Such a strike is called a sup Bolt Ojala said. A a lot of people think if they can to see lightning there a no danger a he said. A if you can hear Thunder lightning is close enough to kill  experts say the safest place to be is in a car. If lightning hits a car it might blow out All the tires but the occupants Are Likely to be Safe if they done to touch the cards Metal Frame. The safest place might be Alaska. In 34 years no one in the nations largest state is reported to have been killed or injured by lightning. A scrupps Howard news service Funera la id requests exceed q make toll by the los Angeles times los Angeles a the official death toll for the Jan. 17 earthquake that struck los Angeles was 58. Yet the state has received 374 requests for Grants to pay funeral expenses for quake victims records show. The state already has awarded disaster related Fune. Ral Grants for 117 people including one Man who hanged himself Over the loss of his Job from the quake and another who died of a Ruspi Raton ailment called a Valley fever More than two months after the temblor. The deceased for whom Grants were Given ranged in age from a prematurely born baby to a 94-year-old heart attack victim. More than half the deaths were caused by heart attacks that followed the earthquake or aftershocks. So far the total Bill to taxpayers is $431,129, and 138 requests for funeral Grants Are pending under a Little known disaster Relief program anyone can receive up to $6,000 for burial and $2,500 for cremation of family members whose deaths were directly. Attributable to the quake or hastened by the disaster. The program just a Small part of nearly $12 billion in Federal quake Relief is administered by the state of California. If a doctor determines the death to be disaster related a it we done to question it a said Liz Brady of the state department of social services. Funeral Grants Are available Only to those without other financial Aid such As private insurance or assistance from the red Cross which helped pay for 14 quake related funerals. State officials citing privacy Laws refused to identify the dead or the doctors who certified the deaths As quake related. But interviews and documents obtained under the California Public records act show that the families of about half the 58 quake victims identified by coroners offices in Southern California received funeral Grants. Among these victims were people killed in car accidents and trapped in collapsed buildings including the Northridge Meadows apartments in the suburban san Fernando Valley where 16 people perished. Many quake victims whose families received Grants were in fragile health and died of a earthquake related stress a officials said. Among those afforded govern ment paid funerals was a Man who hanged himself May 17. His doctor said he was despondent because he lost his Job after the. Quake state officials said. A Grant also went to the family of a woman who died of cancer in March in Arizona. The 83-year-old. 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