How dangerous would electrified rain be to a modern town? Say...

How dangerous would electrified rain be to a modern town? Say, this "electro rain" were a regular occurrence country wide, and only the rain water itself is electrocuted, what kind of measures could be taken to keep the town and it's people safe? What could be some advantages and disadvantages it could bring to a country?
What if this were to happen long enough for evolution to take place? What kind of wildlife could spring forth from this?

Rubber boots are a hot commodity and most, if not all, shoes are made with rubber soles forthis exact purpose. People in rainy areas set up large metal contraptions to collect the electricity. Most insects would probably die or instinctively do things for electrical safety during rainstorms.

Fuck-tons of Eels.

Everyone probably drinks eel blood because the water is still electrified.

So many damn eels they overfill the water, So boats are irrelevant.

Every land creature is hairless and has extremely thick skin and dulled nerves.

Leather-making is extremely favoured however.

Umbrellas are now made entirely of insulated plastic.

>electric rain

That sounds like the kind of thing that would result in some kind of fucked-up electric animals that shoot lightning at people.

Electricity doesn't work that way you fucknugget

Neither does rain.

Wouldn't rubber CLOTHES become hot commodities? Boots are good and all, but if you get soaked in the rain they aren't going to help because the water will connect you to the ground and ignore the rubber.

Electric rain is impossible user. Sorry to be autistic about this, but electricity is a flow of electrons, caused by (in super simple layman's terms) the density of electrons on one end of a conductor being less than on the other end. Conducting material is filled with "loose" electrons, which will all tend to move towards the area of lower density. When there is a linear conductor then the motion of electrons is similarly linear and you can do useful stuff. Anyway, a battery for example has a positive and a negative terminal, and you can think of it as the one terminal being the low density point and the other being a high density point. The electrons flow through the circuit like water through a river: there are electrons at every point in the circuit all moving simultaneously, and due to the force of the electron behind it. Electricity is basically this flow. Further, electricity always takes the shortest and least resistive path possible.

The point is there's no way for an individual droplet to induce meaningful motion in a meaningful amount of electrons. The only way that would be possible is if the droplets were hyper ionised and just loaded up with electrons, but that is a super unstable state to be in and would result in the air around the droplets getting ionised instantly. Plus the weather conditions required to create this kind of situation, and the consequences of both, would probably wipe out all life on earth. Think of sheet lightning except 3d. Like a solid block of blue light extending for kilometers in every direction and up to the clouds. That blue light is lightning. The solid block is the heart of the storm, where there is uninterrupted flow of electrons from the cloud to the earth. All around for more kilometers lightning strikes hundreds of times per second at all the highest points around. This is pretty much the level of energy being discharged into the atmosphere that you'd expect from an orbital bombardment set to "externinatus"

The point of every "but that's impossible" statement is to basically say "It works how you want it to work."

It's a hypothetical you autist

I don't think he wants strictly scientifically plausible electric rain. You can use pseudoscience to try and explain it

>Highly ionized atmosphere
>ions somehow condense into conductive salt water, to form statically charged water drops that release upon contact with a conductive surface

Could be caused by say, a lightning elemental being absent; instead of striking normally and "safely" in remote locations, the static charge builds up to unnatural levels inside the clouds and falls to the earth with the rain.

I'm just spit balling. Even though my first thought was "sorry that's not how this shit works" you maybe could come up with an explanation for a fiction setting.

This.
It's not that I don't appreciate that hard science, but the OP wasn't asking if electrified rain was possible in the first place, just how it would affect things. Granted you gave one outcome with "Doomsday rain", it's not really what I meant.

>autistic idea
>someone corrects it
>call him an autist

well, well, well...

To be fair it was missing the point of the thread.

Just assume it's magic or something you gigantic faggot.

So the "rain" is actually colonies of nanobots that fire tasers when they hit a surface.

Eels would love it.

Giant reservoirs/batteries built to contain the water and harness the power.

Thickened, hairless skin on most mammals.

Rubberized or keratinous plants with thick skins would thrive.

Metal spined cacti.

Few flying creatures.

Normal electricity is the flow of electrons. So, let's assume that if this electricity can "hold" itself in rain drops, that if they contact a person who isn't grounded their body will "hold" the charge instead, until it can flow again and be grounded. A few drops just leads to a little static charge, nothing really. But being caught in a downpour will be like a continuous shock, maybe enough to disrupt muscle activity and effectively paralyze them in the rain to die face down in the cold and mud. Worse yet, if they're not grounded, the person's body will "hold" the increasing charge- until they release it like static. If they charge for too long, they become a walking and (briefly) living lightning bolt. If they get near enough to something conductive, the charge in them will unleash rapidly, likely killing them and whatever they charged too rapidly.
So, one villager gets caught out in the rain and their huge umbrella blows away. He doesn't get his shoes off in time and the rain's picking up, so he starts screaming and running door to door to beg to be let in, but nobody is foolish enough to give their lives. In an ever growing panic of inevitable demise, he runs about, starting to glow, his charge ever increasing, until finally thunder is heard and a bolt of lightning runs from his now charred corpse to the huge rod in the town church designed to protect the villagers from strangers or animals caught unaware.

Brutal.

>So the "rain" is actually colonies of nanobots that fire tasers when they hit a surface.
But how do the nanobots get back into the clouds for the next time it rains? How do they recharge?

i want to use this.