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Originally Posted by anthonyac1

am i missing something????? how do you know there is still power at the outlet. Im sure it tripped the breaker. because the wires on the outlet would have a path to ground real quick. plus it would short hot and neutral and ground all together or i could be wrong. but i still think its a pretty good picture.

Not to sure about that. I was in a flooded basement when I was a lad. I was told by a neighbor to find the cord to the pedestal type sump pump and plug it in. No need to do so as the pump had fallen over and was running like mad under water just by my bare feet. Later my father who owned an electrical supply sales business wanted to strangle the guy for trying to turn his kid to toast.

One other crazy electrical survival story; one of our other neighbors had an abandoned garage that had a live electric line in it. As boys will do we found an old electric blanket to keep us warm while we used the place as a secret fort. The roof developed a leak and we found that stepping on the blanket when it was wet gave us a funny feeling up our legs.

This went on for a few days, until one day our fort was without electric, later we heard the house a about 200 feet away had lost all power. My father told us an electric blanket in their abandoned garage shorted out and caused the main breaker in the house to continue to trip. An electrician traced the cause to the garage, and then finding our secret entrance saw that the blanket had caught fire, burned through the cord shorting to the conduit.

Sometimes i wonder, as children how any of my friends and I made it to adulthood.

Saw it on PBS

Originally Posted by Cagey57

I think that the electrons slowed down so much that they condensed. In turn the Ozone created as a result of condensation combined with free Hydrogen atoms and, of course, produced H2O. Hey... "It could Happen" !

Or something really bad happened and there is water running through the conduit that serves the outlet.
Either way, I am just fine looking at the picture and NOT trying to find the problem.

Actually running electrical current through water will break the bond between hydrogen and oxygen. Combustion will join the 2

Originally Posted by anthonyac1

am i missing something????? how do you know there is still power at the outlet. Im sure it tripped the breaker. because the wires on the outlet would have a path to ground real quick. plus it would short hot and neutral and ground all together or i could be wrong. but i still think its a pretty good picture.

i think snapper was just being a funny guy

I think that the electrons slowed down so much that they condensed. In turn the Ozone created as a result of condensation combined with free Hydrogen atoms and, of course, produced H2O. Hey... "It could Happen" !

Or something really bad happened and there is water running through the conduit that serves the outlet.
Either way, I am just fine looking at the picture and NOT trying to find the problem.

That's taking using water flow analogy to an extreme

Originally Posted by Snapperhead

I give a dollar to whoever licks the water....

am i missing something????? how do you know there is still power at the outlet. Im sure it tripped the breaker. because the wires on the outlet would have a path to ground real quick. plus it would short hot and neutral and ground all together or i could be wrong. but i still think its a pretty good picture.

Originally Posted by Snapperhead

I give a dollar to whoever licks the water....

I'd buy a ticket to watch that.....from a distance.


apparently water, is the new copper.

I give a dollar to whoever licks the water....

One time I was on the roof washing a coil and put the hose in what I thought was the plumbing vent turned out it was a conduit straight from the electrical box that was terminated ont he roof. Don't know why they did that.

Maybe that installer was a newbie. I've seen in some basic electricity literature where the flow of current thru a circuit was compared with the flow of water thru plumbing. I never cared for that comparison myself, but maybe this guy did ....

I have had that as a service call, along with it coming out the thermostat!!

I never did find out the exact pathway and how it happened, but I did discover that under the slab the boiler line must have ruptured, rusted the conduit for the electrical and then traveled up that, in multiple places to the stats and to a couple outlets.

This was a large commercial building with minimal maintenance done in the past. New occupants were not happy.

Oops...... That is pretty crazy!!

Originally Posted by DDC_Dan

Um, the bottom outlet is plugged up and not flowing?

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Exactly! I can never get my snakes in the straight slots but the ground is just big enuff.

Obviously no overcurrent protection.

Um, the bottom outlet is plugged up and not flowing?

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haha. remember the line from the three stooges, 'if y'all want water, just turn on anythang'.

Spot the problem