Yes. While you might think you are safe from water coming out of the shower head, the charge may travel up the drain pipe.
Lightning can strike the phone line and enter you through your ear.
No.
Yes you very much can
To minimize risk of injury, here are some things you can do. Do NOT - I repeat, do NOT - use a phone with a cord or work/play outside during a lightning storm. Turn off unnecessary lights, as there is always risk of being electrocuted. Use any cordless appliances available, like cell phones and battery powered radios. don't go into pools outside. lightning is atracted to waterNote: There are comments associated with this question. See the Discuss:Things_you_can_do_during_a_lightning_storm_to_minimize_the_risk_of_injuryto add to the conversation.
No because you could get electrocuted from the lightning. Lightning is attracted to any body of water.
Yes, your mom was correct: Using a corded telephone during a thunderstorm can be dangerous. Lightning routinely gets into copper telephone cables during storms and can overwhelm the fusing protectors at your home and enter a telephone set, causing a lot of immediate damage to the telephone and the user. Cordless phone handsets and cell phones are safe to use, although the base station of the cordless phone is as vulnerable as a regular corded telephone. Although cordless phones are safer you can still get a shock through them. My wife was talking on a cordless phone during a thunderstorm and the phone was knocked out of her hand causing her fingertips to be red and a tingling down her arm that lasted for several hours. The base unit was on the 1st floor and she was about 30 feet away on the 2nd floor of our house. I picked up the cordless phone and it had no power. I lost my base unit as well as many other appliances in the house.
an emergency medical kit (just in case someone gets hurt during the storm) a fully charged cell phone (to call 911 in case of an emergency)
Because thunder is drawn to metal and if you touch metal and it gets hit the shock will travel through the object and shock you.
Only if you are outside using it during an electrical storm and get struck by lightning
To minimize risk of injury, here are some things you can do. Do NOT - I repeat, do NOT - use a phone with a cord or work/play outside during a lightning storm. Turn off unnecessary lights, as there is always risk of being electrocuted. Use any cordless appliances available, like cell phones and battery powered radios. don't go into pools outside. lightning is atracted to water
To minimize risk of injury, here are some things you can do. Do NOT - I repeat, do NOT - use a phone with a cord or work/play outside during a lightning storm. Turn off unnecessary lights, as there is always risk of being electrocuted. Use any cordless appliances available, like cell phones and battery powered radios. don't go into pools outside. lightning is atracted to waterNote: There are comments associated with this question. See the Discuss:Things_you_can_do_during_a_lightning_storm_to_minimize_the_risk_of_injuryto add to the conversation.
No because you could get electrocuted from the lightning. Lightning is attracted to any body of water.
Yes, it is not uncommon for a person to be electrocuted while using a telephone during an electrical storm. The extremely high voltage can "jump" the protection (lightning arrestors) and follow the phone wires to your house, into your instrument, through you, and into the ground (or vice versa).
when he flew a kite in a lightning storm.
You can get electrocuted if the lightning strikes near you. Although the strike will dissipate after a short distance.
Ben Franklin flew a kite during a lightning storm and was electrocuted through the wires in the kite.
Yes, your mom was correct: Using a corded telephone during a thunderstorm can be dangerous. Lightning routinely gets into copper telephone cables during storms and can overwhelm the fusing protectors at your home and enter a telephone set, causing a lot of immediate damage to the telephone and the user. Cordless phone handsets and cell phones are safe to use, although the base station of the cordless phone is as vulnerable as a regular corded telephone. Although cordless phones are safer you can still get a shock through them. My wife was talking on a cordless phone during a thunderstorm and the phone was knocked out of her hand causing her fingertips to be red and a tingling down her arm that lasted for several hours. The base unit was on the 1st floor and she was about 30 feet away on the 2nd floor of our house. I picked up the cordless phone and it had no power. I lost my base unit as well as many other appliances in the house.
Yes Toad died. He was electrocuted by storm and then flung into the waters.
an emergency medical kit (just in case someone gets hurt during the storm) a fully charged cell phone (to call 911 in case of an emergency)
Because thunder is drawn to metal and if you touch metal and it gets hit the shock will travel through the object and shock you.