2006-08-30 16:22:37 · 14 answers · asked by Kris V 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
It's possible to get struck by lightning just about anywhere including underground. It depends on how strong the lighning bolt. It decreases the likelyhood of being struck by lighning significantly, but is not a guarantee that lighning won't strike.
Electricity follows the least path of resistance, so it's not likely, because the least path of resistance to the ground is through the copper wire that grounds the house.
2006-08-30 16:26:30 · answer #1 · answered by The Bible (gives Hope) 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Possible? Yes. It is possible to get struck by lightning anywhere. Is it probable, not very with modern construction standards what they are. However, some things increase the chances like talking on a corded phone [yes those still exist and are useful if the power goes out] during a storm giving off close strikes to your home.
2006-08-30 21:16:45 · answer #2 · answered by quntmphys238 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
People have been killed inside a structure, when they were on the phone, driving a car, plugging in a television during a storm. It is also possible to be struck by lightning WHILE taking ashower during a storm...
Also, death has occured, when lightning has struck a home, and the home caught fire while the residents were sleeping.
2006-08-30 16:37:11 · answer #3 · answered by ICG 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes you can get stuck by lightning even if you are in a house. If you are taking a shower, using the phone, doing the dishes, using the computer, standing near a window, turning on a light. Those are some of the ways you can get struck by lightning in a house.
2006-09-03 14:22:34 · answer #4 · answered by wiz_on_line 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ground system provides some, but not perfect, protection. There is so much energy in a lightning bolt that it can overwhelm almost any protective measure.
2006-08-30 17:04:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
ya definitely your home does not protect u from lightning.The reason is electromagnetic sheilding.The perfect place to protect urself is a metal encapsulated body a car or a metro rail will aproximately do the job....Speaking technically the electromagnetic field inside such objects is zero hence lighning wont exist there.
2006-08-31 02:03:51 · answer #6 · answered by Wolverine 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I happen to us at my gramps. Thankfully, we were on the other side of the room. It came in through the AC unit on the window and made a big flash of light in our living room. We could not believe it!!! Unfortunately the house was old and mostly made out of wood. It started a fire in the walls and they lost everything. Thank god no one was sitting by the window!!!
2006-09-01 05:18:22 · answer #7 · answered by Izzy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the lightning will unlikely hit you, notwithstanding it may holiday by a telephone connection or a computing device. meaning when you're on those issues for the period of a typhoon, that's conceivable (yet not continually likely) that you ought to get a marvel. it ought to fry your electronics in case you do not have ideal surge protectors.
2016-11-23 15:26:15 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, with lightning anything is possible.
2006-08-30 16:28:37 · answer #9 · answered by Josh S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, lightning can hit anything--a friend of mine had one wall of his home demolished by lightning. If he had been standing next to this brick wall, he would be dead.
2006-08-30 16:27:26 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋