My wife and I watched from about 5 miles away as a county sized
substation blew up. Pretty blue flash. Of course, that, along with
the rest of the damage from the ice storm meant that we had no
electricity for 11 days, but it was fun.
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Jim Wildman, CISSP jim@rossberry.com
614-404-1897 http://www.rossberry.com
On Wed, 1 May 2002, Chuck Hast wrote:
> for a keepsake. The second neatest was 3 transformers on a set of
> poles all of them absorbed a lightning discharge and proceded to
> launch the cans downward into the ground, that happened as I was
> driving around a traffic circle, needless to say it was a real traffic
> stopper... The transformers were held to the cross piece between
> the poles by a bracket which was connected to the lid. That took
> place in San Jose Costa Rica which has lightning that exceeds
> even Tampa in seriousness.
>
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