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 rate at which voltage drops off in water is incredibly fast. Your home has 240 volts maximum. Even in conductive water it at most could travel maybe a foot. Even a lightning strike is dissipated within about 5 feet of where it strikes (otherwise you would have lakes full of dead fish every thunderstorm).
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