Can I be struck by lightning after being electrocuted?

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GodsGirl368

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I've been electrocuted this evening. The hair dryer wire went on fire when I was plugging it in and it burned my finger. I'm worried now that its thundering... It's night, I'm at home. Could I attract the lightning?
 
May 3, 2013
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Hmm ! I don´t think it, unless U were grounded to the pipe line and in a high position inside or outside your house...

Recently, last year, during the rainy season, I saw a lightning coming to me while I was watching a thundering rain. I got afraid of being struck, so I quickly hid inside my bedroom... While I was there, I heard the noise and shook, because fell too close to my hut... Next day I overheard my neighbor talking to another saying that, the very moment that lightning came down, he was washing his hands in the facets, returning from the fields, and he felt he was also electrocuted, because those pipes are grounded and he was also wet from the rain...

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Ugly

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No. The two things have nothing to do with each other. Lightning is attracted to metal first, but will often go for taller objects. Whatever electricity in your body you received from the shock has passed. And doesn't really have any effect on lightning
Objects, such as trees, poles, etc.. send up (i believe) negative streams into the air. The sky sends down positive streams, and the two seek to connect. When they do, this is when lightning strikes. And this is why taller objects usually get hit first. The higher the object, the higher the stream starts out, giving it a better chance to be hit. As you can see, there is no influence from being electrocuted, in this concept.
 

posthuman

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if you are carrying extra electrons they'll discharge from you long before there is enough electrical potential around to precipitate a lightning event.
most of the ones you might have picked up from the dryer went right out of you the moment it happened. what's left can't be more than what you might get from shuffling your feet in carpet - you've probably grounded out all of them already.
touch a doorknob if it makes you feel better tho :)
 

p_rehbein

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I've been electrocuted this evening. The hair dryer wire went on fire when I was plugging it in and it burned my finger. I'm worried now that its thundering... It's night, I'm at home. Could I attract the lightning?
grab ahold of a 20 foot long steel rod, go outside and run around the yard...........good chance you will attract something :)

Now, just because of the hair dryer experience, in and of itself, makes you no more likely to be struck by lightening than if it hadn't happened...........