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Troopers are also reporting similar power pole fires!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Power outages sweeping across Central Texas

 
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Active Outages: 79
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look at all the ones with blue
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Re: Troopers are also reporting similar power pole fires!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Power outages sweeping across Central Texas
People also have been hearing booms...I've heard them in Ohio, the other people are in Texas, I believe...

My best friend's husband is a journey lineman...texting him right now!
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Add Arizona to the list of booms.
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First thing I thought of when I read the Original post.

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Re: Troopers are also reporting similar power pole fires!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Power outages sweeping across Central Texas
East dallas here. About a month ago, around 4am, we had a small power surge and then my dogs started going crazy. I got up to check them and saw a huge fire at the bottom of the power pole under the transformer. Me and my husband had noticed for months before this happened, the transformer had been leaking a black fluid and smelled very "industrial" like.. The fluid killed a large section of brushy plants/vegetation. Anyway, the fire department and oncore had said that an "aluminum filament overheated and fell off into the brush." Therefore catching the dead black area on fire. Me and my husband just wanted to know what and why the stuff was leaking from transformer.
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Re: Troopers are also reporting similar power pole fires!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Power outages sweeping across Central Texas
The sun reaches all parts
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.
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I hear you AC but let's also keep an open mind for all possibilities. they have been spraying the crap out of Arizona for the last week. day and night. The entire sky has been covered with chemtrails with no break. So we really aren't getting the sun....otherwise maybe we would be seeing this also. just thinking out loud... hiding
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look at Australia

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Re: Troopers are also reporting similar power pole fires!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Power outages sweeping across Central Texas
Ok, this is the jouney lineman's explanation. Dust is the likely cause. Texas has been dry. Usually the rain washes the dust away...When there is a bulid up of dust, then fog, the minerals in the fog causes the electricity to arc to the pole and cause the pole to catch fire.

So, there you have it, no conspiracy. Solar activity is not going to hit just Texas, guys. :-)

Hope this helps.
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Ok, this is the jouney lineman's explanation. Dust is the likely cause. Texas has been dry. Usually the rain washes the dust away...When there is a bulid up of dust, then fog, the minerals in the fog causes the electricity to arc to the pole and cause the pole to catch fire.

So, there you have it, no conspiracy. Solar activity is not going to hit just Texas, guys. :-)

Hope this helps.
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inaccurate map. im in an area supposedly reporting an outage right now, and i'm posting just fine.
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OP

Can you compile all your links into one post.
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can someone tell me how to do thishf
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look at Australia

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Both those maps are scary! oops2
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verizon network all fucked up also (im in wi) reports all over the country though
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Isn't Texas on own power grid, separate from the rest of the country?
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Re: Troopers are also reporting similar power pole fires!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Power outages sweeping across Central Texas
Ok, this is the jouney lineman's explanation. Dust is the likely cause. Texas has been dry. Usually the rain washes the dust away...When there is a bulid up of dust, then fog, the minerals in the fog causes the electricity to arc to the pole and cause the pole to catch fire.

So, there you have it, no conspiracy. Solar activity is not going to hit just Texas, guys. :-)

Hope this helps.
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Ever watch Close Encounters Third Kind and the cow part not going for it
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verizon network all fucked up also (im in wi) reports all over the country though
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Isn't Texas on own power grid, separate from the rest of the country?
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Re: Troopers are also reporting similar power pole fires!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Power outages sweeping across Central Texas
And it's not even a hot day in Texas. Temp is 70 degrees so this is very, very unusual. Safe to go outside I wonder?
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Are these US made transformers, Chinese or ????? Sounds like outsourcing is "backfiring" big time!!!
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"Those little bastards are called neutrinos."

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SHHHH it was fog and dust (wink wink)
nothing to see here.

Like we really believe 50+ poles all having the same condition in multiple counties at the same time.

1 yes we can believe
2 ok maybe, but thats stretching it
3+ Bull shite.

at least make the story convincing to stupid people.

"We had an electrical surge at the station, due to excess current generation. the resulting surge caused several power poles to overheat and catch fire. The electrical regulators have been reset, and we will not have a repeat surge. Power will be restored to the effected areas as soon as the fires are put out, and ground crews finish repairs."

now that is a B.S. story that stupid people will accept.
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unfortunately, that's 99.99% of the population
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Weird, Im right up the road and havent heard a thing about this.
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"Those little bastards are called neutrinos."

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hf
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"Those little bastards are called neutrinos."

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Thanks for the laugh between all the serious shit going on. I needed that! hf
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5* and Pin Request.

What the fucking fuck is going on????????????
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Re: Troopers are also reporting similar power pole fires!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Power outages sweeping across Central Texas
And it's not even a hot day in Texas. Temp is 70 degrees so this is very, very unusual. Safe to go outside I wonder?
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It doesn't matter what the temperature is.

There is an accumulation of dust on the high poles. When it's a dry season, usually the power company will hose down the poles to wash the build up off the poles...Evidently, this did not happen.

The fog is moisture...We all know that water is a conductor of electricity...Right?

So, build up of dust along with fog causes arcing...there is your fire.
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