is it true that u shouldent take a shower while it is storming?

Actually, yes it is true. Nor should you talk on a corded (attached to the wall) phone.

It sounds like one of those old wives tales, or urban legends, but it is true. It's not the thunder that is a danger, it is the lightening.

If the lightening strikes your house, the charge can travel through the pipes in your house, and of course electrify the shower water. Same with a phone which is plugged in with wire, not just fiber optic cable.

All that said, the chance of it happening are EXTREMEMLY remote.

~Garnet

Homesteading/Farming for over 20 years

P.S. If you want scarey, trying riding a horse out in the middle of the desert, where the only metal for MILES around are the shoes on the horses feet, the bit in the horses mouth, and the stirups on the saddle, and having a sudden and VIOLENT thunder and lightening storm roll in! Been there, done that!

P.P. S. Despite what Aviophage said, my answers are not wrong. My husband works with electicity all the time, with the 300 foot 1.5 MGW commercial wind turbines. I've learned a great deal about electricity, and what I stated about showers and lightening is not wrong....just highly remote chance.

Lightning, like all electricity, will take the least electrically resistant path to ground. Since the copper plumbing in most homes is grounded, by code, and attached by metallic pipe to either the well head or municipal water supply under ground, there is very little chance that a person standing in the shower will become a better path to ground than the one that already exists. If the plumbing is plastic (PVC), the chance is even less remote.

Bohemian's answers are wrong.

There is no particular risk in taking a shower indoors during an electrical storm, nor in using a hard wired telephone.

Nothing to worry about.