Swedish girl zapped by lightning twice
Published: 20 Aug 11 09:47 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/35658/20110820/
A 12-year-old girl in Gothenburg was struck by lightning twice while taking a shower during a thunderstorm on Wednesday evening.
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Seconds prior to the child’s outburst two loud claps of thunder had suddenly cracked outside and the rain began to pour.
Alice had been struck by lightning in the arm but her parents did not immediately understand what had happened.
The child’s mother, Cecilia Svensson, immediately went downstairs and began to help wash her daughter’s hair when Alice screamed for the second timed.
“She screamed again. She was holding the metal shower hose while rinsing off,” Svensson, who at this point still did not understand what was happening, told local newspaper Göteborgstidningen (GT).
A phone call to an expert on the radio provided clarity.
Although nothing else was damaged in the house, the flash lightening must have struck and travelled, live, through the pipes.
“It could have gone badly,” said Svensson, who also said she learned as a child not to shower during electrical storms but that this localized storm erupted quickly.
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the local just a bit of wisdom, light travels faster than sound so people writing this article appear brighter before they open their mouths (put pen to paper)!
you will get the shock before you hear the thunder not afterwards!!
mostly you only get an induced charge in the wires and pipes as the lightning flashes past which hurts but is not dangerous, but finally a Swedish girl who knows how to conduct herself properly LOL.
Never touch metal plumbing during a thunderstorm.
Don't know what the SV regs are though.
"mostly you only get an induced charge in the wires and pipes as the lightning flashes past which hurts but is not dangerous, but finally a Swedish girl who knows how to conduct herself properly LOL. "
Haha, that made my morning :D
Tip- Water is very conductive in high voltage.
Who ever said it's not, is mental.
Use only plastic plumbing in bath with no portion of any surface conducting current.
It's no difference than peeing on electric fence.
http://www.break.com/index/peeing-on-an-electric-fence.html
There is a myth that electricity seeks the path of least resistance. The truth is that electricity takes all paths in inverse proportion to the resistance.
Grounding electrical neutral and plumbing together is still a correct thing to do. Not doing so makes things worse. What this girl's home may have wrong is plumbing not cross connected to drains. There needs to be a heavy, corrosion resistant, wire from the hot and cold pipes to the drain pipes. Or every pipe needs to be plastic of one of the forms commonly available.