Storm Showers: The Shocking Truth

[@Telcomvic]

I guess we're safe, all the supply lines in our house are PEX.

[@healthhistoryfurryfriends]

Thanks for your comment. Stay safe.

[@georgevavoulis4758]

What are chances of this ever happening?

[@urizen7613]

Rare but it does happen. The video seems reasonable.

[@BurninatorTheTrogdor]

120%

[@albertbeaney2580]

You can continue to try it until it eventually happens, or not happen. Then you can calculate your odds. (If it doesn’t happen)

[@healthhistoryfurryfriends]

Thanks for your comment, but I think it may be best to be sure than sorry. Avoid "Shocker Showers"!

[@healthhistoryfurryfriends]

Glad he survived the incident. And incidentally the ida for this video surfaced after a discussion with my wife, who is from England. Imagine that!

[@mikuohatsune78]

I got shot once cleaning my dishes while it was thundering

[@tackytrooper]

Did you return fire?

[@healthhistoryfurryfriends]

Sorry, but I don't understand. can you explain?

[@healthhistoryfurryfriends]

Wow! Glad you survived the incident. And thanks a million for confirmation that this is real!

[@ArielGibson757]

I was told the newer homes had a rod that goes into the ground that will get the lightening . Is that true ?

[@urizen7613]

My house has one and it's not new, though it probably didn't have one when it was built.

[@healthhistoryfurryfriends]

I guess it does, but as explained in the video, there is still an element of risk involved. I think it may be best to wait, and simply shower after a thunderstorm!

[@healthhistoryfurryfriends]

There may still be a risk. Check the video again (as well as an Electrician!)

[@solarwind907]

I would file this under “snowballs chance in hell“

[@healthhistoryfurryfriends]

Thanks for your comment. However you may wish to check check the comments below, because it seems that sometimes "Hell Freezes Over!". Have a good one.

[@solarwind907]

@@healthhistoryfurryfriends You can also get hit by a meteor while showering I guess, but not sure it's worth a warning video. Hope you got lots of clicks and made money.

[@healthhistoryfurryfriends]

@@solarwind907 Actually I'm not currently receiving money from KZbin, but hopefully in the future? And I did receive some clicks, but hope I'll get more! Anyway I think it's better to be safe than sorry - don't you? Stay safe, friend.

[@simonschillberg1744]

Very much bullshit - water can be a conductor yes, but guess what? The Plumbing is build from metal and is earthed. So the path of least resistance is the plumbing itself into the ground. Not the water through a shower/fosset and you into the drain to the ground. Second, lightning reaching the plumbing and not the lightning rod is a great installation failure in itself. So we need 2 failure modes accuring at the same time to pose any kind of danger.

[@healthhistoryfurryfriends]

Thanks for the thought put into this comment, but are 2 failures at the same time impossible? Just asking?

[@simonschillberg1744]

​@@healthhistoryfurryfriends Is it impossible that X happens? - most of the time not - but this doesn't make it likely to happen. Furthermore - lets assume for a moment both failures accure at the same time. The Key to understanding my statement is the 'any kind of danger' part. Even if there is no lightning rod and the metal piping gets struck directly by lightning and the piping is somehow not connected to earth. But your drain has a nice connection to earth somehow and no pipes of this 2 systems are touching - ever - in the entire installation. For scenario 1 (the fosset): All pipes are in contact with the concrete or in case of usa mot likely wooden construction which is the same material you are standing on so you are as grounded as the rest of the house. There might be a small shock as the lightning follows ohms law for resistors in parallel but your path has more resistance to ground then the direct connection to the structure (assuming your pipes are not able to hover in the air). For scenario 2 (the shower): There might be a minuscule chance of getting hurt given all previous assumptions of a unconnected water pipe system having minimal connection to the structure and no connection to a very well earthed drain system. Leaving you and you alone and the water droplets as path with lowest resistance. Nonetheless i'am sure the spark gaps between the pipes and the connections through the structure will reduce the potential danger for you by a great margin. Energy does not take the shortest path - it takes the path with least resistance - and that is all paths with different ratios depending on the effective resistance on this path. So even in the extreme failure scenarios i describe here with very specific conditions to maximize the potential for harm you might be able to receive a shock but the bulk of the lightning goes secondary routes. As last reminder furthermore decreasing the danger of a shower scenario - most draining pipes are from plastics - so a great insulator as well as ceramics of your tiles or the paint on your bathtub making you effectively a bad connection to ground. Hope this clears things up.

[@healthhistoryfurryfriends]

@@simonschillberg1744 Noted. And thanks for your interest in this topic.