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

Question

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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Answer 1

I don’t know what it’s like elsewhere, but during the recent flooding in Germany, the news said that the local public utilities had cut power to prevent accidents.