Yes, and it was caused by one of the elements in the electric water
heater
being shorted and feeding enough electicity to the water in the unit to
cause a shock at the washer/dryer and anything else that was grounded to
a
water pipe. Also a big jump in the electric bill the month before it was
figured out.

What kind of short was it that didn't trip the breaker?
If you pipes were grounded why would you get a shock off them? Your
resistance has to be thousands of times higher than the water pipes, so if
there was some wierd short that only allowed a couple amps, 99.99% of it
would go through the pipes when you touched them.

This doesn't make any sense to me. Can anyone explain it?