What is lightning? Why does wearing rubber shoes help you during a storm?
Lightning is atmospheric discharge of electricity usually accompanied by thunder, which typically occurs during thunderstorms, and sometimes during volcanic eruptions or dust storms.
During a thunderstorm lightning may hit the ground and travel through the acidic raindrops that was once in the sky. If we had metal soles the electric charges of lightning will travel to the ground, through the water, up your metal soles and into your body. I think that will be really painful. Some of us don't like to get electrocuted so we wear soles made with rubber, because rubber is a good insulator so it can prevent lightning from coming up your soles.
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