It may interest HN readers to learn (it interested me) that if you are standing near downed power lines (for instance, your car crashed into a pole and it fell, or a storm, whatever) you need to jump away from those downed power lines.
You need to stay in one fixed place and then jump, up in the air, to the next place, and continue to "bunny hop" away from the downed power lines.
The reason is, depending on the amount of moisture in the earth, or cracks in the asphalt, or dirt, or water or whatever, it is possible for there to be a spot where there is more resistance in the ground between your two feet than there is in your two legs and so (if you are walking) the electricity will arc out of the ground, up one leg and then down the other.