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I realize this is years and years ago (I honestly don't know what year it was, and I'm sure that it was when electricity was still fairly new) but my Dad's cousins mother was electrocuted by stepping on an extension cord that was laying on the wet grass and killed. I just called Dad and he thinks it was 1936.

Here at the house, my bladder tanks for the well are in a building outside of the house, below grade. I think it was an old milk house. I insulate the building and put a infrared 1200 watt heater on the floor, which is turned on and off via a thermostat that is set for 33 or 34 deg F. Since it's inside the building, none of the electric out there is on a GFIC. A few years ago in the Spring after everything was melted, a cold snap came thru the area. I lost water in the house - the pipes froze somewhere. I looked down by the bladder tanks and there was about 24" of water down there, with ice on top. The heater was completely submerged under water, with the thermostat still out of the water. I went back in the house, put on rubber boots and was just about to break thru the ice when something clicked in my head. "I wonder if the circuit is tripped going to the heater?" I climbed back up the ladder, and looked at the breaker box. It was NOT tripped. I'm still wondering if I would have made it back up the ladder after breaking thru the ice if I hadn't turned off the circuit breaker first.........