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ELI5: When extreme flooding happens, why aren’t people being electrocuted to death left and right?

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?
gpt
You get electrocuted when you stick a fork in a socket because all that electricity is going directly into you. When a flood happens, that's a much larger space for all the electricity to flow into. As such, the electricity won't be as intense to the point where it affect lives. It's similar to the concept of grounding. When you ground some electricity, you're providing a route for electricity to flow into the ground because the Earth is a much larger body than yourself. 

The caveat though... if a small and insulated area like a bathtub or wading pool gets flooded and hits electricity, that body of water will probably be electrified enough to kill.