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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“Red-orange flash reported in skies above Clermont County [Ohio]: ‘I thought it was an explosion’
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That makes sense. It sounds like something we did as kids. lol
Recloser is circuit breaker that since amperage spikes on the grid and opens the circuit for a period of time then closes the circuit again and if the spike is gone will remain closed if not it will cycle.
A tree falling into the conductor would act as a filament like in a light bulb but would burn up in time hopefully before the recloser cycles out and remains open. Then the utility sends a crew to reset it.
To answer your question no. Most likely a conductor failure will occur.
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