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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]

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.

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It’s so simple to not use the bathtub in a storm.  I was in a house in the suburbs where the chimney was struck by lightening.   It was so scary.  I was alone and it was the loudest boom and lightning at the same time.   I’m glad I wasn’t in the tub. [/quote]

My house literally burned down after a lightening strike when I was 20 (I was in the house with my family, everyone was fine) and I had no idea this was a thing and have never thought about my bathing habits in conjunction with a storm. What I learned from that? Sometimes freak accidents happen and it doesn't really benefit anyone to go around worrying about the 1 in a million. If it happens to you, you deal with it, but I'm not wasting another second of my life wondering about what if 'random freak event' happens. If it happens, it will likely be nothing like what you envisioned, better to just take life as it comes and enjoy it then spend it anxious.[/quote]

That's it. I am going to live in a cave in France like my ancestors.[/quote]

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