Is it actually dangerous to shower when it’s storming?
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It’s always dangerous to shower
How so?
It’s slippery in there man
“The current can easily travel along those pipes, and when it’s looking for a way out at the end of the line, it can jump and strike a person from the showerhead or faucet,” 
Cleveland Clinic
Is It Safe to Shower During a Thunderstorm?
An emergency physician discusses some myths about lightning strikes while indoors and shares why you should never shower during a thunderstorm.
why would it be dangerous?
Yeah, women die a lot in the shower suprisingly.
But I mean will you get shocked to death?
Yes I’ve heard this, but I was wondering how factually true it is.
I’ve never heard of this happening to anyone throughout my life.
Seems like a great fear tool just to keep scaring people.
How should I know lol
"Current will jump out of perfectly good metal pipes to go through a human full of fats and oils.
It is known, Khaleesi."
Me either, that’s why I was hoping for an answer from someone that knows 😂
sounds like a bunch of non Dan's fiating an article into existence to me.
I'm being facetious, of course.
If your shower has a cold water pipe involved somewhere, its made of metal and in intimate contact with the ground.
Cold water pipes are such good earths its common to earth ham radio equipment to them, to get the last little extra bit of sensitivity.
Lightning is never going to choose you as a current path over a cold water pipe. If lightning literally struck your shower head, it would still take the cold water path to ground.
You'd likely be defeated and spattered the molten metal, though...
Deafened, not defeated, darn autocorrect
I’ve been thinking this was BS.
I just have never heard of a random celebrity or person on the news drug out the bathroom naked cause they showered at the wrong time 🤷🏻♂️
Wonder where the story came from? Like, originally.
Covering for a suicide in a shower maybe?
I’m not sure, but I figure it’s something like this.
Just one of those theories that could be complete bullshit that we all consider to be true and dangerous.
I think you're right.
Well, if I'm ever home during a Hollywood lightning-filled super-storm powered by climate change and Donald Trump, I'm going to hide in my shower.
Bathroom is a small room, so slightly less likely to be torn apart by winds. And there are cold water pipes in the walls to save me from lightning. Even from directly above, if I'm under the showerhead.
Unless the Hollywood super-storm is also a Sharknado, then the flying sharks might come in for the water.
For some reason when I picture this they're all cute little dogfish and aquarium carpet-sharks, but YMMV...
yeah the lightning will go through the ground and zap you
It will go through the ground? 😳
Chipmunks beware!
it is unlikely to be dangerous, plain tap water is not that conductive, almost not conductive
i've heard of people doing immersion cooling with computer hardware using distilled water
on the other hand, the water out of the tap is conductive enough to earth you for the typical levels of electrostatic imbalance common from being constantly isolated from the ground
also, most mains water is already buried in the ground and amply earthed, so even if pipes exposed to the air were struct they would discharge right there not conduct all the way to your shower and take such a high resistance path to earth