On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:45:45 -0400, "John Grabowski"
wrote:



Shutting off power to the entire house is not a guarantee that the neutral
won't be hot. Under rare circumstances if your neighbor lost his neutral
connection it is possible that his return current would travel through the
earth to your neutral connection and then back to the transformer.



Could you explain this a little more, really slow.