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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Water (even salty water) isn’t *that* conductive. Despite what movies and “common knowledge” might tell you a regular mains voltage submerged live wire won’t shock everyone/everything that touches the water. [ElectroBOOM explains it well](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcrY59nGxBg), basically the electric current flows through the path of least resistance to the ground, considering how much of a poor conductor water is, this means even if your body was the path of least resistance you’d still be safe just a few inches/centimeters away.
That being said, during a flood the breakers either detect current flowing directly to the ground or a short circuit which should trip them and cut the power.
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