In a flooding event (i.e. hurricane, etc.), do officials preemptively shut off electricity to prevent electrocution from downed power lines? If not, how don’t people get injured?
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No, they don’t, and with bad luck your house’s main fuse won’t trigger before you got whacked. Bailing the house out after a flood an extension chord came floating by, and that thing was very much still live. I don’t think I’ve ever sprinted that fast as on the way to the fuse box.
The firefighters and technical aid services have generator-powered pumps/lamps/heavy tools, but not enough to work on all the spots that desperately need it. So power from the electrical is helpful. People along our little stream get flooded all the time. They just break out the sand bags, get their (electric) pumps started early and hope it’s only the basement *this* time.
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