Posted on 01/21/2020 9:20:09 PM PST by BenLurkin
Tim Walker and his daughter Carolyn Walker were taking the trash out Sunday evening at their Bethel home when they saw a flash in the sky.
You can see on their Ring camera the colors in the sky are red and orange with a little pink and purple too.
The father-daughter duo admits it scared them at first. They also say, despite the bright colors and length of the incident, they never heard a sound.
So what caused the flash?
We contacted Clermont County Emergency Management. They have no explanation but did hear from plenty of people reporting the flash.
Bethel Police had the same response. We also reached out to Duke Energy. According to them, 584 customers lost power for two minutes just before 7 p.m. Sunday. Crews drove that line Monday and found no issues.
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I love it when the father and daughter stop to look, see a flash, and then continue on to take the trash out as another weird flash appears as they stop looking.
Cue the aliens guy.
A power transformer arcing would cause colors to fill the night sky. That people lost power would explain it.
“A power transformer arcing would cause colors to fill the night sky. That people lost power would explain it”.
They lost power for only 2 minutes. Wouldn’t arching damage the transformer?
Short from foreign object like a tree on power line. The recloser switch is set off several times and then remains off.
To me, with the circumstantial evidence of a power outage, it looked like an electrical arc.
An electric arc can be seen for many miles. An arc is also very hot. I’ve seen evidence of an arc setting green grass ablaze at a distance of at lease 100 feet.
It can also cause a sunburn like effect on unprotected skin. However, most of the guys I worked with in the electrical industry, ran like hell, so that effect was not a problem.
It would be like an arc welder. Whatever caused the arc would have burned first.
But would it damage the transformer so that it wouldn’t function?
Along with the recloser switch I’ve seen power line oscillate in the wind and slap adjoining wires.
So that would explain the power going out for only two minutes?
It could, depending on the time it took to blow out the short.
The power was out for only two minutes so maybe it wasn’t bad enough to take out the transformer.
That same thing was actually on an episode of “Unexplained Caught On Camera”
It could have been as simple as a cluster of those metallic helium filled balloons settling down on the anode of a transformer.
Reclosers are programmed to automate the reset process and allow a more granular approach to service restoration. The result is increased availability of supply.
Reclosers address this problem by further dividing up the network into smaller sections. For instance, the city grid example above might be equipped with reclosers at every branch point on the network. Reclosers, because of their upstream position in the network, handle much less power than the breakers at the feeder stations, and therefore can be set to trip at much lower power levels. This means that a single event on the grid will cut off only the section handled by a single recloser, long before the feeder station would notice a problem.
from wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recloser
S, theoretically, if a person was interested in sabotaging a large transformer one would first want to disable the reclosers upstream? Asking for a friend.
Years ago we had a squirrel get fried on our neighborhood transformer and power co had to manually reset the breaker.
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