2006-07-21 00:32:06 · 17 answers · asked by Corina O 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
Lightning can strike the house and travel through the pipes, thus striking you in the shower.
The possibility is slim, but it can happen.
2006-07-21 00:35:31 · answer #1 · answered by Cheyuk 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Is taking a shower in a lightning storm dangerous?
2015-08-19 01:52:09 · answer #2 · answered by Cinderella 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It can be. There is a show called MythBusters on the Discovery Channel which checks out all types of urban legends. They recreated a typical bathroom, complete with running water and a shower, and enclosed a dummy made with a material which simulates the human flesh and attached it to a machine which measures voltage . Of course, they couldn't duplicate the strength of lightning, so they took it to the next best thing--a power plant. They rigged it so that the "bathroom" would get hit. Sure enough, when they took out the dummy, it had been hit so hard that if it had been a real person, he would have been dead.
2006-07-21 00:47:16 · answer #3 · answered by cross-stitch kelly 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
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I was told that too when I was a kd. The problem is that if and I say if your dwelling is hit by lightening, you could become part of the electric circuit and become one well done piece of meat. If the house is hit, the lightening will travel through the house wiring and copper pipes. If the shower is on, the electricity will also follow the shower water. Since you could become part of the circuit, you'll pay the price. But the statistics are slim for a bolt to hit a house unless it is out in the open in high ground without a lightening rod grounded system.
2016-04-07 01:31:21 · answer #4 · answered by Barbara 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It certainly can be, though it rarely happens. If lightning were to strike your house and travel through your water pipes the electricity would come through the water and electrocute you. If you were lucky it wouldn't kill you - only blow off your arm or leg. Best advice I can give you is to wait until the storm is over to take a shower or bath. My grandma used to tell us to hurry if we had to go to the bathroom to take care of business, afraid the lightning would strike the toilet, I suppose, lol.
2006-07-21 14:48:54 · answer #5 · answered by The Nana of Nana's 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes taking a shower in a lightning storm is dangerous because the lightning can travel through the water pipe, into the shower and and electrocute u and u would be dead
2006-07-21 09:11:54 · answer #6 · answered by claironet01 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope. The word dangerous carries the connotation of a significant absolute risk.
Out of 300,000,000 people in the US, lightning kills only about 70 per year - that in itself is insignificant. By that standard alone, very few things you could do during a thunderstorm are dangerous.
Of the deaths documented over a year, I wouldn't expect to find that any of the victims died while taking a shower. I've never read of a documented case of lightning injuring a person in a shower, much less killing them.
The mythbusters 'lightning experiments' I've seen have no similarity to the physical setup of a lightning discharge.
2006-07-21 01:59:24 · answer #7 · answered by Ethan 3 · 5⤊ 2⤋
If you are encountered by a thunderstorm and want to take a shower and its bad out, wait til it lightens up and then take your shower within 10-20minutes max. My dad takes showers every day, even if the weather is bad out. He'd rather be clean than to wait all day and have it be bad and never take a shower when he could just take one in less than 10 minutes.
2016-03-18 22:02:51 · answer #8 · answered by Teresa 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if you're taking it outside during the storm with a metal handled back brush.
2006-07-21 14:02:42 · answer #9 · answered by Jenny A 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Under that theory it would be equally as dangerous to turn on a faucet to get a glass of water. I'm not buying it....
2015-05-11 12:04:48 · answer #10 · answered by Ben 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋