When extreme flooding happens, why aren’t people being electrocuted to death left and right?

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There has been so much flooding recently, and Im just wondering about how if a house floods, or any other building floods, how are people even able to stand in that water and not be electrocuted?

Aren’t plugs and outlets and such covered in water and therefore making that a really big possibility?

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I had a weird experience one day at the lake. There was a big crowd and people had their boats on the lake. Suddenly I began to feel the weirdest thing. I kept getting cramps on the feet and toes and sometimes other parts of my body. It turns out there was a boat I was near that had a short and a cable was in the water from the battery. I’ve been shocked by a car/boat battery before and this was way milder. So yeah, the more water the more things are are in direct contact with electricity, the less intense it is.

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