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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Think about what path electricity would prefer to take. [A live wire in water isn’t actually particularly dangerous,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcrY59nGxBg) as long as the ground is also nearby. The electricity would still much rather take the shortest path to ground through the water than through the human body. But in the case of a flood, the ground is *everywhere*. So, assuming fifty billion circuit breakers haven’t tripped and interrupted the circuit yet, the electricity is just going to flow from the ~~positive~~ charged terminal to the ground, in all directions, and the voltage would quickly drop to zero.
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