[Phys-L] Re: Lightning and indoor pools

[Bernard Cleyet <anngeorg@PACBELL.NET>]

The pool is a huge low resistance electrical sink that will "attract"
lighting, but indoors I wonder also.  I wonder, is it very uncommon for
lighting to strike a dry area * ?  The bldg. didn't have a lighting rod
or grounded antennas, etc.?


* A dirty wet building would afford similarly to the protection an auto.
gives?

bc

Robert Cohen wrote:

> Some time ago, there was a discussion on this list about the danger of
> taking a shower or bath during a lightning storm.  I don't think any
> evidence was provided that anyone has actually died or been harmed while
> taking a shower or bath and so I am still wondering about this.
>
> In any event, what reminded me of this discussion is that yesterday we
> had a line of storms move through the area.  At the time, my son was in
> a swimming program for boy scouts at our campus pool (indoor).  At the
> first sound of thunder, everyone was ordered out of the pool.  The boy
> scouts, still somewhat wet, then moved to a dry area near the pool side
> where they worked on CPR.
>
> My question is: were they any safer at their new location?  Is the
> problem electrocution or is it drowning?
>
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> East Stroudsburg University; E. Stroudsburg, PA 18301
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