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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Electricity flows along the path of least resistance, which is normally metal or into the ground. The human body isn’t that good a conductor, so the current probably won’t go through you most of the time. However, the more electricity is flowing through something, the higher the resistance is AKA less “room” for electricity to go through.
In Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, you have the iconic scene of the water chasing Indy and Co. down the tunnel as they climb out onto the cliff and move to the sides. The water is flowing out of the tunnel, but then it starts making additional holes because there’s just that much water pressure the tunnel can’t hold it. Those holes are when you’d have current moving through you. If they get big enough, you get electrocuted.
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