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From: ken@ribo.harvard.edu (Ken Cleary)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: using the bathroom during lightning storm
Keywords: weenie-roast for weenies
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Date: 28 May 91 03:08:08 GMT
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I enjoyed this thread quite a bit.
I probably shouldn't post a "serious" followup, 
but I don't want this thread to fry (OOPS die :) just yet.

The trap in a toilet has water in the part you can see, but I'm sure
everyone realizes there is an air space beyond that.  That combined with
the ceramic insulation of the toilet should protect fairly well.
It might be more of a problem if the storm zapped a rat in the sewer and
made a teenage mutant ninja rat, which came up the drain and did something
nasty :-)