[legitsource]

A few years back, I was standing in a puddle in a shed plugging in a golf cart when lightning hit a few feet away from me. It was like a bomb going off, vaporizing sheets of drywall, turning the wooden beams into splinters, and blowing a chunk out of the concrete.

In the room upstairs, it melted a mirror and fried all the electrical devices. A monitor close by got a really neat wavy pattern like it was exposed to a magnet.

All in all, that was a terrible afternoon at work.

[defen]

Setting aside the lightning incident, would it be considered imprudent to plug in an electrical device while standing in water?

[legitsource]

I was working at a golf course plugging a charging cord into a golf cart. There was at least a small puddle in that building 24/7.

[Kliment]

If your socket has a ground fault interrupter, no. In every other case, yes.