If the power is still on in a house that is flooded and someone walks in the water, why/how are they not electrocuted?

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I keep seeing videos of people coming home to a burst pipe or the neighbors above them having a flood. The water pours down from the ceiling and from the light fixtures (lights are on), but the people walking around the house don’t get electrocuted.

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The question is how the power is still on? Any modern house with a correct electrical installation should have its mail circuit breaker shutting down the whole thing.

I had a pipe burst a few years back pouring water by litres in a nearby wall plug, the electrical panel did its job

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