Well, that was exciting.
I arrived home at eight tonight and pulled into my driveway, as I do. It was raining, so I got ready to make a run for the house. I grabbed my bag, opened the driver’s door, put one foot out, and heard a loud bang. Followed by many other loud bangs.
Fireworks? I wondered. No. A transformer blew about five houses down the street from mine, on my side of the street.
It wasn’t happy enough to go off with a pop.
No.
It crackled and sizzled and fizzed in all the colours of the rainbow, the sparks traveling up the wires to RIGHT BEHIND MY FRIGGIN’ CAR where I had, by then retreated with both feet, up and down and up and down for about a full minute before it finally fizzled out.
To say I was terrified and fascinated in equal measures is, well, pretty much the truth.
The extravaganza stopped at the transformer outside my house, so we have power. All my neighbours down the street aren’t so lucky.
I’ve seen a transformer blow before, but this was just … spectacularly horrifying!
I just wish I’d had the presence of mind to take a picture instead of sitting there peeing myself, wondering if I was going to make it the twenty feet to my front door.
Without being fried.
*doesn’t insert copyrighted image of Wile E. Coyote electrocuting himself
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September 12, 2018 at 3:46 pm
Wow!!! That was pretty intense! I probably would have just huddled and watched it, too. Glad you’re okay!
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September 11, 2018 at 6:01 pm
I think shock and awe are fitting to the situation. I’m so glad y’all, and your car, are okay.
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September 11, 2018 at 2:25 pm
Picture would have been nice
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September 11, 2018 at 1:55 pm
How scary. Glad you are okay and didn’t lose power.
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September 11, 2018 at 8:58 am
Ouch to the nervous system! ♥
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September 11, 2018 at 9:00 am
Too true!
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September 11, 2018 at 6:56 am
Yikes! I’ve seen that happen, and you had every right to focus on your own safety.
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September 11, 2018 at 9:00 am
There wasn’t much I could do but sit there and wait for it to be over. Yikes indeed!
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September 11, 2018 at 2:40 am
Glad you survived the electrifying moments!! 💜
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September 11, 2018 at 9:01 am
Haha! ❤ Thanks, Willow.
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September 11, 2018 at 1:41 pm
Hugs 💜🍃
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September 11, 2018 at 1:36 am
Wowsers!
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September 11, 2018 at 9:01 am
Exactly!
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September 10, 2018 at 11:13 pm
That was quite a elaborate display. I would have run away, don’t know where but far. Turns out you.7are safe
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September 10, 2018 at 11:27 pm
I was scared to get out of the car! I figured if electricity is anything like lightning, I might have a better chance with rubber tires under me.
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September 11, 2018 at 2:43 am
Good thinking!
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September 10, 2018 at 10:59 pm
Glad you are safe. We had one blow in our backyard when I was a kid. A definite memory maker. And yes, water makes it worse because electricity travels through water easily.
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September 10, 2018 at 11:00 pm
I saw one blow in my back yard about ten years ago, when I lived in another house. But it was nothing compared to this.
Thanks, Anita.
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September 10, 2018 at 10:42 pm
Wow – glad you are okay
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September 10, 2018 at 10:43 pm
Yeah, wow is right! Thanks, Beth.
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September 10, 2018 at 10:37 pm
Wow! That would have been a scary experience. I’ve heard transformers blow before, but I’ve never heard of such fireworks, even the rain. You’re just a special Canadian, eh? 😸
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September 10, 2018 at 10:43 pm
As Dan pointed out the other day, I see the strangest things. 😛
I think the rain may have made it worse, actually. If that had been the transformer outside my house, which is on a pole that’s about fifteen feet from my back bumper when it’s parked in the driveway, I might still be cowering in the car.
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