And yet ....
Back during the 1995/96 holidays, Reno, Nv., suffered a major flood. One of my customers - an RV/trailer park - was submerged under 6-8ft. of water.
PoCo distribution was underground, stopping every so often to feed a 4-ft. tall cabinet with six PoCo meters in it. Feeds from these meters went to each trailer's pedestal. These cabinets - which were not gasketed - were completely submerged.
To this day, if you open these cabinets you are likely to find an inch or two of silt left by the retreating floodwaters. The cabinets weren't even cleaned, let alone replaced. I suppose it's possible that the meters might have been replaced. Maybe.
We know the main breakers were not replaced, by the silt left on them.
Yet, nearly sixteen years later, I am not aware of any failures of this gear. Is it possible that this whole 'flood damage' issue is drivin by engineers/marketing folks playing at being lawyers, rather than actual experience?
