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Troopers are also reporting similar power pole fires!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Power outages sweeping across Central Texas | |
Spittin'Cesium  User ID: 14589973  Netherlands12/06/2012 07:20 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Troopers are also reporting similar power pole fires!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Power outages sweeping across Central Texas The article states that they believe the cause of the pole fires are "dust buildup and a low lying fog". I understand the principles of how this could be causing a shorting out, resulting in fires. But, all this at one time. Come on!!! Quoting: JeepersCreepers Things could have reached a tipping point,its' possible  The thing that hath been, is That which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done:and there is no new thing under the Sun. Ecclesiastes 9:1 |
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| Woodoo User ID: 24273586 United States12/06/2012 07:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Troopers are also reporting similar power pole fires!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Power outages sweeping across Central Texas This is from the dust and other contaminants collecting on the insulators. When the fog came, it was just enough moisture to cause the contaminants to collect. Over time, this build up causes the insulator to fail. When it fails, the distance from the Energized line to ground is shortened and it literally ionizes the air, and grounds. ELECTRICITY ONLY WANTS TO GOTO GROUND. It's called corona and I am the largest distributor of $100k cameras used to detect this Quoting: Woodoo you are a distributor of caw caw. If i had a nickel for every grandiose claim some asswipe makes on here, you should just tell us that your uncle invented transformers and youre a doctor of fog phenomena Seriously fella? I didn't make any outrageous claims, just figured I'd lend a hand set people's mind at ease. Also, what would you do with all those nickels? I recommend the purchase of a giant "I'm an Asshole" forehead tattoo. |
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| Spittin'Cesium User ID: 14589973 Netherlands12/06/2012 07:26 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Troopers are also reporting similar power pole fires!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Power outages sweeping across Central Texas |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 24599086 United States12/06/2012 07:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Troopers are also reporting similar power pole fires!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Power outages sweeping across Central Texas |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1624959 United States12/06/2012 08:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Troopers are also reporting similar power pole fires!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Power outages sweeping across Central Texas Dust buildup, Fog ? Hey, this is Texas ! Dust is a way of life here and fog happens on a regular basis. We have had 8 months of drought where I live AND fog on a regular basis, and no fires or power outages reported. Seems strange that it is mostly Oncor grids being affected, but just wait - I'm sure a "Mr Smith" will show up saying it was swamp gas, ball lightening or Venus ! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 24599086 neuralizer FTW  |
| EugeneOregonAwakened User ID: 4123634 United States12/06/2012 08:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Troopers are also reporting similar power pole fires!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Power outages sweeping across Central Texas This is from the dust and other contaminants collecting on the insulators. When the fog came, it was just enough moisture to cause the contaminants to collect. Over time, this build up causes the insulator to fail. When it fails, the distance from the Energized line to ground is shortened and it literally ionizes the air, and grounds. ELECTRICITY ONLY WANTS TO GOTO GROUND. It's called corona and I am the largest distributor of $100k cameras used to detect this Quoting: Woodoo you are a distributor of caw caw. If i had a nickel for every grandiose claim some asswipe makes on here, you should just tell us that your uncle invented transformers and youre a doctor of fog phenomena Eugene, Woodoo is absolutely right insulators, lighting arrestors, regulators, capacitor banks, autos, xfrms, cutouts, fuses, potheads, arcwhippers, etc.... fail all the time. well it sounded made up. I gather what i said was now in retrospect rude, and im sorry. Theres just so many people that try and make stuff up to sound important, and thats exactly how it sounded, just tired of disinfo. sorry again, was pretty rude - also im not a pothead, i am sober lifestyle and b.s. science Last Edited by Samuel Bachelor Of Science on 12/06/2012 08:07 PM Do You Guys Believe SevenOfNine and Chokotay Hook Up? Where Did That Come From? |
| 13th-Century User ID: 28715327  Canada12/06/2012 08:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Troopers are also reporting similar power pole fires!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Power outages sweeping across Central Texas Dust buildup, Fog ? Hey, this is Texas ! Dust is a way of life here and fog happens on a regular basis. We have had 8 months of drought where I live AND fog on a regular basis, and no fires or power outages reported. Seems strange that it is mostly Oncor grids being affected, but just wait - I'm sure a "Mr Smith" will show up saying it was swamp gas, ball lightening or Venus ! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 24599086 The smartasses love to pile it on, don't they? Oh, I have a company. Let me explain. Oh, I am an engineer. " " " Oh, I work in the field. " " "  |
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| Spittin'Cesium User ID: 14589973 Netherlands12/06/2012 08:17 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Troopers are also reporting similar power pole fires!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Power outages sweeping across Central Texas Around here copper thief's have removed all the grounding wire from the poles as high as they can snip them. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 29235328 This could and does cause issues for safety. We have a rise in Scrap Metal Theft in the UK also,since the carsh began. The thing that hath been, is That which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done:and there is no new thing under the Sun. Ecclesiastes 9:1 |
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| Spittin'Cesium User ID: 14589973 Netherlands12/06/2012 08:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Troopers are also reporting similar power pole fires!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Power outages sweeping across Central Texas The Sun is very quiet in X-Ray output at present,around the B1(ish)level for a while [link to www.swpc.noaa.gov] No Flaring of significant strength for over a Week. We are not experiencing a Geomagnetic Storm nor are we expecting one any time in the next 24 Hours so it is hard to try and pin this one on the Sun,less' someone can find something very Esoteric that I have missed. It is quite strange though anyhow,regardless of it being dust related or not. The thing that hath been, is That which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done:and there is no new thing under the Sun. Ecclesiastes 9:1 |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 29097190  United Kingdom12/06/2012 08:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Troopers are also reporting similar power pole fires!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Power outages sweeping across Central Texas water does not conduct electricity. Quoting: Alufiend 29210298 impurities in water conducts electricity. you could stand in a bucket of distilled water, put jumper cables in both sides, attach it to a car battery, and you won't get shocked. electricity is the movement of electrons. water is a perfect molecule. no extra electrons to bump off, no voids to fill. You better make sure your standing in a glass bucket.Otherwise 'Kids,don't try this at home. He's right what he is saying i bet u watercool your pc lol |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 22335519 Canada12/06/2012 09:01 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Troopers are also reporting similar power pole fires!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Power outages sweeping across Central Texas I have never heard of anything like this before. Nobody has. The same night/day as all the booming and house rattleing going on. Come on already. |
| Spittin'Cesium User ID: 14589973 Netherlands12/06/2012 09:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Troopers are also reporting similar power pole fires!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Power outages sweeping across Central Texas Dust my ass. I live on a gravel road. Dusty all the time. I know people that have lived up here since the power was installed in 72. No way this was dust. Somthing happened. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 22335519 I have never heard of anything like this before. Nobody has. The same night/day as all the booming and house rattleing going on. Come on already. It is these kind of reports that have me thinking otherwise. All I can say is  The thing that hath been, is That which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done:and there is no new thing under the Sun. Ecclesiastes 9:1 |
| odinson222 User ID: 19727744 United States12/06/2012 09:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Troopers are also reporting similar power pole fires!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Power outages sweeping across Central Texas The sun reaches all parts Quoting: Anonymous Coward 22342469 And if this were due to solar activity Very large parts of the Infrastructure would be on fire. Solar activity doesn't just Touch Texas you know. Overvolting or arson Can explain this without the Kooky theory that the sun only fries Texas. Easily. There are holes in the ionosphere. A little bit of that radiation could do that. odinson222 A Man Has Got to Know His Limitations I am just a sinner trying to make it to heaven! Romans 8:35-39 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. |
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| Spittin'Cesium User ID: 14589973 Netherlands12/06/2012 09:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Troopers are also reporting similar power pole fires!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Power outages sweeping across Central Texas The sun reaches all parts Quoting: Anonymous Coward 22342469 And if this were due to solar activity Very large parts of the Infrastructure would be on fire. Solar activity doesn't just Touch Texas you know. Overvolting or arson Can explain this without the Kooky theory that the sun only fries Texas. Easily. There are holes in the ionosphere. A little bit of that radiation could do that. You'd need a pulse of high energy akin to EMP as a little Radiation wouldn't do that to Electricity Pylons less' it was a massive event. Not saying our Sun and potentially our own upper Atmospheres(Plasmaspheres etc.)couldn't do this just so far I haven't seen any mention of anything from anyone like Ham Radio/Radio Tards of any out of place signals or the like. It is still strange and could yet be something other than what has been mentioned Above. The thing that hath been, is That which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done:and there is no new thing under the Sun. Ecclesiastes 9:1 |
| odinson222 User ID: 19727744 United States12/06/2012 09:49 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Troopers are also reporting similar power pole fires!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Power outages sweeping across Central Texas Kinetic Energy coming from these damn booms maybe. Shorts out the electric lines. My two cents.. Quoting: brent pops I think that you are quite right. Static and kinetic energy is causing this. There are threads about this and more about the build up. I will report more tomorrow. odinson222 A Man Has Got to Know His Limitations I am just a sinner trying to make it to heaven! Romans 8:35-39 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. |
| Ralph--a house dog User ID: 25802009 United States12/06/2012 11:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Troopers are also reporting similar power pole fires!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Power outages sweeping across Central Texas Heads up! Quoting: 13th-Century This is an orchestrated attack on Texas, carried out by the Feds - Don't you DARE try to secede! [link to www.theblaze.com] Interesting link, especially the comments! "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night.....Rage, rage against the dying of the light"-----Dylan Thomas HIS NAME IS SETH RICH [link to biblicalselfdefense.com] [link to forum.1111ers.blog] Always remember that "for the greater good" will not include YOU. "Who decides?" ---Robert A. Heinlein -'Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.'—Benjamin Franklin [link to www.westcoasttruth.com] The only thing worth paying full retail for is pantyhose. You cannot do all of the good the world needs, but the world needs all of the good you can do. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 29169880 United States12/07/2012 01:48 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Troopers are also reporting similar power pole fires!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Power outages sweeping across Central Texas took stuff out of storage after one summer...dust like a magnet...check it out on my cb radio...go ahead blow it up..........lOOK at dust,,,in Cheyenne wy [link to www.ebay.com] NIKON D7000 WITH 50MM 1.8 AIS ....SHOT AS JPEG HI Mysterious Rumblings in Texas has experts puzzled [link to www.youtube.com] |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 29169880 United States12/07/2012 02:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Troopers are also reporting similar power pole fires!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Power outages sweeping across Central Texas Data from station NATX (Nacogdoches, Texas, USA) [link to earthquake.usgs.gov] LISS - Live Internet Seismic Server [link to earthquake.usgs.gov] |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 16845676 United States12/07/2012 02:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Troopers are also reporting similar power pole fires!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Power outages sweeping across Central Texas Data from station NATX (Nacogdoches, Texas, USA) Quoting: Huckelberry [link to earthquake.usgs.gov] LISS - Live Internet Seismic Server [link to earthquake.usgs.gov] look at pin thread right now of Texas  |
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