I am about to pose a question to you. I already have my answer, however, I hoped you might contribute to the “conversation.” Let me set it up for you.
This morning, Sam and I are sitting in the living room drinking coffee. She tells me that we are supposed to be getting some really nasty storms this afternoon. I opened up my weather app and sure enough, it looks like there will be some heavy stuff rolling through.
While the kids eat breakfast, Sam jumps in the shower. When she gets out I tell her that I want to shower early before the storm. She chuckles and says, “You don’t believe that old wives tale, do you?” I stood their looking at her thinking, “It’s no wives tale. It’s a fact.” She keeps staring at me and can’t believe that I don’t want to shower during the storm.
Now, my wife is usually right about things. So I wait a bit before getting ready to shower. I know I want to shower early anyway because rain always slows the drive. As the rain starts, I look at my weather app.
It’s really coming down. I tell Sam I am going to shower real fast. She laughs again and says, “You are not going to get struck by lightning in the shower!” So naturally, I Google it. “Hey, Google. Is it safe to shower during a thunderstorm?” The response read:
I show this to my wife who laughed it off. I know that this was not something that I learned second hand. I want to say that they even told us this in school – probably the same time they told us not to stand under trees during a storm.
So I know the answer to my question. It is not safe to shower during a thunderstorm. So let me pose another question to you –
Did you know this to be true or die you think it was an old wives tale or urban legend? I’m interested to know.
Various Ramblings of a Nostalgic Italian 
I knew this! My husband always is skeptical and kind of laughs at me but I won’t shower or let Wyatt take a bath during a storm.
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My wife thought I was crazy!!
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I have never heard this, and in all of the sites where I looked it up, they agreed with you
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It’s weird to think about lightning killing you in a shower ….. but it can happen!
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yep, true. Mind you,not common but it happens. Old landline phones were possible conductors too it the lines got struck near you. When I was a kid, my dad had a friend who died stuck by lightning , while in his house washing dishes… though I don’t know if that traveled through the pipes and water or blasted through the window above his sink. Lightning kills a lot more people than tornadoes do in this country.
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I never knew this, but I don’t think I’ve ever showered during a lightning storm!
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Oh, sure! I’m aware of that. I believed it more as a child and was definitely afraid.
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I’m totally with you on that one, Keith and I time my showers accordingly. Not really much of a problem, really, but I’d never dare to do anything water related while there’s a thunderstorm. Mind you, I’m not the bravest of creatures at the best of times, so I tend to err on the side of caution anyway.
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When I was a telephone company “outside” repair tech, I’d say in that ten year period I saw first hand where lightning had struck houses or power lines close to houses that resulted in damage. In one case, the customer said he was talking on the phone when it blew up in his hand. He wasn’t hurt, but the phone was just a plastic blob, and on that trouble ticket there were maybe three or four other things in the telephone company plant I had to find and fix. So, yes, it does happen, but I’m thinking the probability is pretty low. I saw just a handful of incidents, myself, in the ten years I worked that job.
If you first checked any of those weather web sites that show where lightning is, such as Weatherbug, and saw none within miles of your house, the probability is probably very tiny, but if you’re hearing cracks of lightning (not just the thunder) it’s probably worth waiting for that shower.
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