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Flooding and NM cable, aka "romex"

Seldom do I encounter wiring in a crawlspace.

It seems odd that the power company would re-energize a service without the approval of the building department.

I seems doubly odd that the building dept. would release a building that's been submerged in water for days......and saltwater.
 
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When flooding occurs, getting power on at a house is important so that , tools, fans and dehumidifiers can be used to clean out the house. We are inspecting the service only for the POCO and per NEC to ensure that the new or rebuilt service is code compliant. There are always old circuits hooked up and we won't send a cut in card to the POCO until a new GFCI quad box is installed and all of the circuits that were submerges are disconnected and cut back. That does not stop them from putting in a junction box and hooking them back up. To refuse to hook up power until the entire house is rewired is not an option as these people will be out of the house for months in most cases and the longer it sits wet, the more problems occur.
 
Ya I figured that there's more to it than I knew. Trying to control the power wouldn't be a simple job. A lot of it comes down to trusting people to not burn down their houses.
 
At a certain point you start wondering why people don't use UF in places where flooding is likely.

In my new addition everything is fed from the top and it is THHN/THWN in a plastic raceway.

There is no drywall below the ceiling either.
 
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