is there a scientific reason not to shower during a thunderstorm?
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I know this is just circumstantial, but I saw lightning damage to a shower first hand. It was 25 years ago or so, at my friends house that had copper pipes just like everything else in the area 25 years ago. The lightning hit their oak tree in their yard and jumped across to the house somehow. It destroyed their cable box, TV and speaker system they had in the living room. The bathroom in the hall had flash damage around the showerhead and bits of the metal pipe connecting the showerhead was blown out.
We lived in an area that’s known for it’s high rate of lightning strikes. I was always told in school about lightning safety and to not use the shower or (corded) phones during storms. I followed those guidelines loosely at first. After seeing the damage to my friend’s house never used a shower in a lightning storm ever again.
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