- Sep 14, 2015
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An explosion knocked out power to a street below this hill. About 60 homes lost power. Our powered flickered briefly but stayed on.
Explosion Knocks Out Power
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You can see 2 fuses on the primary swinging down after both of them blew @ :9 sec. mark, maybe there was a 3rd phase, can't see. Most likely reason during fair weather is something highly conductive fell across the 2 phases, because normally they're not that loud when they blow.
- Sep 14, 2015
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Here is a closeup of the area. The 2 lines going down and off to the right go to a pole on the street that lost power.
And those two conductors start swinging at: 7 second mark, 1.0 second before the fuse blows (maybe), so it's possible the fault occurred somewhere to the right off camera.
It takes a second for the sound to hit your cam's mike but when can see the smoke and a crow at the top of the tree at top right hears it and flies off immediately!
You really need to start live streaming on yooz tube, or X, or something. This is better than anything on TV now days.
CanCuba
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I was a subway operator for several years. It wasn't super uncommon to have a motor blow when applying power from a stop. Always scared the sh*t out of everyone on the train and platform. It was like a rifle shot if you it was on the lead car.
600V DC being shorted produced a lot of noise and smoke.
600V DC being shorted produced a lot of noise and smoke.