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A few years back, I was standing in a puddle in a shed plugging in a golf cart when lightning hit a few feet away from me. It was like a bomb going off, vapori
by legitsource 13y ago
A few years back, I was standing in a puddle in a shed plugging in a golf cart when lightning hit a few feet away from me. It was like a bomb going off, vaporizing sheets of drywall, turning the wooden beams into splinters, and blowing a chunk out of the concrete.
In the room upstairs, it melted a mirror and fried all the electrical devices. A monitor close by got a really neat wavy pattern like it was exposed to a magnet.
All in all, that was a terrible afternoon at work.
- defen 13y agoSetting aside the lightning incident, would it be considered imprudent to plug in an electrical device while standing in water?
- Kliment 13y agoIf your socket has a ground fault interrupter, no. In every other case, yes.
- legitsource 13y agoI was working at a golf course plugging a charging cord into a golf cart. There was at least a small puddle in that building 24/7.