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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I saw videos about electrical safety in my electronics manufacturing class during college
where people absolutely do wade into potentially electrified water and then get shocked, fall into the water, and/or die.
There were several examples in the videos we watched.
There was a flooded basement with an electric water heater, there was a rainy driveway with a metal ladder and a light fixture, and a few more. Didn’t know I was going to watch people die on camera in class that day, whoops.
Stopping or recovering from the situation is tough because it can be difficult to isolate the power or to de-energize the area, so it may be impossible to stop the situation or to recover or save the person affected without becoming a victim yourself. You really can’t see whether it’s safe to enter the water or not in the first place.
The other commenters are right in that there are plenty of reasons that it *probably* won’t hurt you, it *might* have tripped a failsafe, or it *could maybe* be diffused enough to not have a noticable effect.
But those are all just rolling the dice. No guarantees.
It’s not something you can always see; so call a professional, or get help. It’s one of those things that you could be right and you could fine *most* of the time, maybe; but on the off chance that you’re wrong, you could be dead.
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