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I knew about the phone lines but not about the danger of bathing or using running water. Good tips, Pam. Many people have been injured or killed by lightning coming inside their homes.
One time during a thunderstorm, my sis and her husband were sitting in their main-floor living room and after a big bolt of lightning hit nearby they heard the TV in the upstairs bedroom blaring. They ran up there, and found that the charge had turned the TV on, at full volume, and the on/off switch no longer worked. From then on, the only way they could turn the TV on and off was by plugging or unplugging the power cord. Twilight-Zone weird!
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Great tips Pam...when I was a little girl my mother was ironing during a thunderstorm. Thankfully the iron was in an upright position sitting on the ironing board at the time. A bolt of lighting came through the electrical lines, out the outlet up the cord then jetted out of one of the holes in the iron and broke through the window across the room.
Needless to say my mother never had anything electrical running during a thunder storm.
During this past 4th of July just before the firework display were to begin we started having lightening and thunder storms. It was one of the most vivid storms I have ever seen with not just long but wide strikes of thunder coming down along with with the fireworks it was quite the display. Right after the event people couldn't leave fast enough!!!
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Twilight-Zone weird! 
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