After my unexpected adventure with electricity last night, I couldn’t resist walking down the street to see what had caused the damage.
It looks like this branch fell on the wires in the rain, hit just the wrong spot, and shorted out the transformer, causing the unscheduled fireworks display I witnessed. Not much damage, right?
But look what it did to the poor tree!
I shall forever refer to you as sparky.
I couldn’t get a clear picture, but the burn mark goes up pretty high.
GAH!!! Electricity is dangerous!
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September 13, 2018 at 11:31 am
My current read (see what I did there?) is THE LAST DAYS OF NIGHT, about Edison, Westinghouse, and Tesla and the electrification of America. The people who WORKED WITH electricity didn’t understand it much better than I do, so it could be amazingly dangerous.
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September 14, 2018 at 11:23 pm
Oh, you are so clever. Hahahaha!
Yeah, electricity is scary. Especially when there’s either too much or not enough of it.
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September 12, 2018 at 10:08 pm
So sad when a tree gets damaged by man’s technology. 😳
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September 12, 2018 at 11:22 am
Scary like lightening!
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September 11, 2018 at 7:11 pm
Electricity can be very dangerous. Years ago, during a windy rain storm a power line came down in my backyard. I went out back to inspect, at the same time as the neighbor behind us went into her yard. Between us, we agreed to call the power company. When the utility guys came, I got yelled at – big time – for going out into the back yard IN THE RAIN when a power line is down because I could have been electrocuted by just stepping onto the wet ground. I never did that again.
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September 11, 2018 at 6:21 pm
There was electricity in the air
When she embraced her lover
In a fiery death.
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September 11, 2018 at 5:47 pm
Dang. I’m glad it was good and wet up there!
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September 11, 2018 at 5:09 pm
Wow!
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September 11, 2018 at 12:52 pm
Poor tree!
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September 11, 2018 at 12:07 pm
Electricity is indeed scary. The tree almost looks like lightening damage. Glad you were safe.
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September 11, 2018 at 11:21 am
That is scary. We had the big PG&E gas explosion in our city and that was horrifying. Glad you are all okay.
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September 11, 2018 at 9:10 am
Wow! That is pretty scary.
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September 11, 2018 at 9:21 am
I assume the only reason it didn’t catch on fire was that it rained all day. But yeah! I wonder if they’ll take it down. I hope the wound isn’t fatal.
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