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I suppose, if short circuit currents are low and nothing ‘blows’, things will come back to life eventually.  We had a pipe burst in the roof at the ‘cold’ end of our house and some of the deluge ran through a portable radio on a window ledge.  The radio still worked, but the CD playing function was dead, so I bought a new machine and saved the old one as a spare radio.  After a couple of years, I tried the CD function again and it seemed to be attempting to work after a fashion.  After a further couple of years I tried it again, and it now works perfectly.  The water also ran through a great stack of what in the UK we call Ordnance Survey maps, local topos at 1:25,000.  These dry out ok, so long as you unfold them immediately while they’re still wet and spread them around the house to dry, which takes up a lot of space for a couple of days.  Books were harder.  I had to kind of leave them ajar.  Fortunately, I rescued most of these before the water got beyond the outer covers.  Dave