True story: I grew up in San Francisco close enough to the beach that there were signs on my street that read TSUNAMI EVACUATION ROUTE . Of course SF is primely situated on the Ring of Fire , home to 90% of the world’s earthquakes (which set off tsunamis). All that to say, I had plenty of school drills growing up for taking cover during a quake, but very little instruction on how to prepare for a thunder/lightning storm. One woman in Kentucky just learned the hard way that you should not use electrical appliances if your home is right in the thick of a lightning storm, and she’s sharing her story so other unenlightened folks (like yours truly) don’t suffer the same injuries she has. Last week Shelby Moore was getting dinner together for her three kids, when lightning struck the house a
Cele|bitchy | A woman got electrocuted by her microwave during a lightning storm

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