Middle School baseball coaches didn’t know if the team was going to be able to play the game on Monday March 4th because of the pending storm that was approaching. To help the Coaches with the safety of the boys, this little device was hung on the dugout fence. It’s called a “Thunderbolt Lightning Detector”. The device is set to scan 10 miles continually and provides updated information about storms and lightning activity in the area.
Coach Jimmy Hughes said “When it detects lightning activity an alarm will sound”. If and when the alarm sounds, the baseball players will be removed from the playing field and will wait for 30 minutes for no lightning activity. At that time, the team will be able to return to the field. If the alarm sounds again within the 30 minutes, they will wait another 30 minutes from the last alarm before continuing any play. This cycle continues until there is no activity for 30 minutes and depending upon the number of alarms the game will pick up from where it left off or the game is called.
The safety of the boys comes first.
