Shocking Surprise

How in heck did it get that way? Overloaded? Lord.

"When I was a kid" we had a house/ basement, the house plumbing was all galvanized. But where the well came in the pipe ended just outside the house and transitioned to black plastic from the well. So, "there was not much" of a ground. The dryer, washer, water tank, and range all had separate raggedy ground wires bonded to the water pipe. One day we started getting "tingled" by the outdoor faucets on the house.

I was pretty young then, and finally Dad dug into things and turns out a burner in the range was "leaking" and causing the drain. He had first REALLY grounded the water piping LOL and all that did was to cause the electric meter to speed up!!!

This house, by the way, was built in late 30's and had no "3rd wire" grounded outlets