re: How many of you bathe/shower while it’s lightning/thundering outside?

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lightning/thundering

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Haven't seen lightning or heard thunder in years.

My Maw Maw used to say that thunder was just God going bowling.

of course its possible.
just not likely.

I don't do it. it would creep me out.

and I turn off my electronics.

we (northern California Mts) are supposed to have lightning today around 2 pm. supposedly torrential rain too which is a plus so we don't get a wildfire from lightning.

I showered at the crack of dawn.

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Heard the same thing about telephones back in the early 80s when we still used corded phones.

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I got buzzed in the ear by a phone during a storm. Had to explain to the person on the call why I suddenly yelled, GD!

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Years ago, I defended a contractor who got sued over a lightning strike. The homeowner had recently had a vasectomy. During a thunderstorm, he was holding a refrigerator door handle. When the lightning struck, it went through the home's electrical system, through the fridge handles, into his body, and exited his body at the point of least resistance, which happened to be the unhealed incisions from his vasectomy. Turns out some crackheads had stolen the grounding rods from the house while it was being built.

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My dad was a subcontractor on a new home back in the early 90’s. When the home was built and the water turned on, water started gushing from underneath the concrete slab.

Turns out, lightning had struck the slab and went through the stubbed up copper and split the K Copper in two places under the slab. Had to run bypasses for the split parts.

I always wear rubber soled shoes when I do