Did you/do you bathe your children in severe thunderstorms?
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Anonymous
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Of course. 10-20 people shocked a year is simply miniscule as a danger.
It's more dangerous to walk to the grocery store, yet I keep doing that as well. Over 6,000 pedestrians were killed last year. |
Anonymous
| Yes. My kids are older so I don’t bathe them but they shower during storms sometimes. The is on the bottom of the list of things I worry about. Actually I don’t worry about it at all. |
Anonymous
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Wow I have never even known this was a risk and opened this thread expecting to see people making fun of OP!
I don't feel like I have ever even considered this a factor so I'm sure I've done it. I think I did it yesterday hearing some thunder? Honestly not sure but I must have done it! I doubt I'll be able to incorporate this into my anxiety bucket so will just go on acting like I didn't know this. |
Anonymous
Well, let me fulfill your expectations! As a PP pointed out, there are literally dozens, if not hundreds of daily activities that are or dangerous than bathing during a storm. OP, and people in general, suck at risk assessment. If you live on a plain in Kansas in a 3 story house with an old style TV antenna, this is a valid concern. I, and I expect most of the people commenting, live in an area where the trees and other structures are much taller than my house. |
Anonymous
It's not even on my worry list. |
Anonymous
| If it’s a severe thunderstorm we’re all in the basement. IYKYK |
Anonymous
| No, just because I don't want to have to go down to the basement wet if there is a tornado / high wind possibility. |
Anonymous
Sometimes people suck at risk assessment, but I don't think this is one of those times. The danger is very very slight, but the benefit to bathing at a particular time is essentially nil. It's not like "oh driving to the grocery store is dangerous" which it is, but there's a benefit to getting groceries. I don't dip my dick in fish blood and stick it in the ocean, even though the odds of getting it bitten off by a shark are very low, because there's no reason to do that. |
Anonymous
You need work on your analogies. I am not suggesting you shower with a lightning rod. |
Anonymous
Well that escalated quickly. It is far more like going to the grocery store than chumming the water with your junk is hahahaha. Who can go through life worried about all these inane things? I worry about like, actual risks. But you know I agree with you about that being a way to really go out of your way to put the most precious part of you at risk for virtually no reward. |
Anonymous
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I'd avoid it a reasonable amount. Meaning showering 15 minutes early or later. But if a storm was lasting awhile, I'd just go on ahead.
I didn't even know this was a thing until I was in my 30s. The risk seems very small. |
Anonymous
I live in a DC rowhouse, and we've definitely had lightening strike directly at our house and blow out our Internet and router. And of course we all remember the horrific story a few years ago when tourists were struck by lightening on the mall. Lightening strikes actually happen. This is one of those things where the cost to avoid the risk is so low (shower 20 minutes later after the storm) that I don't understand why people wouldn't do it. My Dad is an engineer and he always enforced this rule. How horrific would you feel if your child was actually electrocuted, and you knew there was a risk? |
Anonymous
| LOL I 100% clicked into this thread thinking OP was asking if parents use thunderstorms to bathe their kids. Like during a thunderstorm you take your kid outside and have them lather up and rinse. |
Anonymous
I am an electrical engineer and I am telling you that the risk is so small, it's pointless to worry about. You aren't a router connected to external wiring. I know about millions of risks. I choose to do nothing about some. That's called risk acceptance. Not all risks need to be mitigated. |
Anonymous
| No! |