Dad warns about electric shock drowning after teen's death

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Originally Posted by Hillcountry

To the masters of electricity out there...how close would you need to be to get really hurt, as in electrocuted, by something like this?

Something happened to our cottage's grounding rod, and household electricity surged through our lakewater intake.

Wading nearby, you could feel "something's wrong" about five feet from the pipe. Swimming, our dog yelped at five feet and turned away. Moving progressively closer, one could expect to be progressively paralyzed.

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