2006-07-10 03:17:40 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
Assuming you are showering indoors and are enclosed, you cannot at all be directly hit by a bolt of lightning. Your surroundings, and quite possibly you, will act as the "grounding" of the electrical current. The lightning will follow the most condusive and closest path to "ground." If you are not touching any of the enclosure (except for the floor) then the electrical energy would have to "bounce" from the surroundings it initially struck to you. This is highly unlikely because air has a very high resistance. The resistance of the material used in your surroundings (ie.. wall, roof) will be much lower and will cause the lightning to follow that path to "ground."
If you are holding on to something, such as the metal handle of the faucet, then there is a good chance some of the electrical energy will find its way through your body to "ground," in which case, YES, you can be affected by lightning while in the shower.
Is it enough to kill you? Absolutely. Is it very likely? Heck no. There are MANY other objects that create a shorter and more condusive path to ground than your house, your shower and you. For example a strike will more readily occur in telephone or electrical poles, your neighbors satellite dish or TV antenna, the 60 foot high oak tree outside your window, etc..
Your answer, ultimately, is yes you can, but its improbable.
2006-07-10 06:53:34 · answer #1 · answered by chris s 1 · 4⤊ 0⤋
not directly. but if the pipes that the water to your shower gets hit then yes you can get the charge of the lighting. that's why people on the weather channel and the newspaper (sometimes magazin depending on the magazine) says what is safe to do when there is a thunder/lightening storm
2006-07-10 03:35:50 · answer #2 · answered by Gothic Girl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can be struck by lightning anywhere at all. Even if you're wearing rubber shoes.
2006-07-10 03:22:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
its very unlikely to happen but if the lighting was to strike a water pipe or underground well the electricity could send voltage through the water lines causing you to be electrocuted
2006-07-10 03:22:11 · answer #4 · answered by cheffunk2002 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, very much so. All the pipes and the water make a pefect conductor from the sky to the house through the pipes, through the water, through you and into the ground.
2006-07-10 03:20:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, especially if you are holding onto something metallic.
2006-07-10 03:21:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
oh yah guess where the eletricity exits? ouuuchhhhhh
2006-07-10 03:44:32 · answer #7 · answered by bow4bass 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes
2006-07-10 03:21:36 · answer #8 · answered by Natalie Rose 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i dont think so....but i take showers all the time when there is lightining....it is fun...i guess
2006-07-10 05:06:15 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you naked???...tom science
2006-07-10 05:57:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋