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So they likely have buried power from the road that looks like it's significantly uphill from the house. The handhole at the top of the hill was probably improperly installed below the flood line in a ditch that flooded. The pipes are siphoning the ditch water into the house. I know of a multi million dollar church this happened to and flooded the basement with 4' of water. One can of great stuff foam for $5 would have saved this homeowner over 100k in damages.

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I'm no electrician but I think standing in water that is actively pouring out of electrical boxes is probably not the best move

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The water touches ground so the fuses should have done their work already. If the electricians have done it right, that is.

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Fuses/breakers trip at many times the current it takes to kill you. Only GFCI would help here. Flood water is full of contamination that makes it conduct easily. In my experience the danger zone is about 1/4 inch per volt starting at around 50 volts or so. But I'm still alive so take that with a grain of, ahem, salt.

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I had an electrical panel have water cascade through it. I tried to tell my girlfriend not to touch it. You can pretty much guess what happened next.

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I believe that's called aphasia you should probably get that looked at

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You gotta love walking into an area that's being actively flooded and seeing equipment that's still live.

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My gradpa always said if you keep yourself properly grounded nothing will shock you.

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If you keep yourself "grounded," i.e. earth potential, you'll definitely get shocked in most scenarios. In order to not get shocked, you either isolate the circuit you're working on from the mains with an isolation transformer and don't complete a circuit with 2 hands or you isolate yourself from "ground." The guys who work on high-voltage lines are isolated from "ground" plus charged to the potential of the high voltage line they're working on.

The electricity definitely wants to get to "ground" potential. If you're "grounded," it's gonna go through YOU to get there if you let it.

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He was trolling you. Being grounded is what will get you shocked.

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That’s fine except when you’re the conduit to ground.

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This only applies to static electricity.

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Nah, not niggers. If niggers were involved all of the copper would have been stripped.

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Holy shit!, how can this happen?

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bringing your electricity and water into the house through the same pipe is a game changing innovation. who said niggers have never invented anything?

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You ring up the insurance. Hello, the is Shiniquine, we will get to you when we get to you.

Damn, the niggers run the insurance company too.

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Fuck 'em. They sound like liberals.

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Looks Like flooding to me

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did... did they pipe water into the fuse box???