I probably stole this from you, too. (But, I did so with great honor) 😂
Posted on 05/31/2025 9:28:08 PM PDT by ransomnote
FR’s pythons never let me down...
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Ah... I had not thought of lightning. In my residential area it seems to always be blowing trees that interrupt service. Incidentally, the ground lead to that 'shield' wire runs down a pole every few poles. Copper thieves discovered all that #4 copper and started cutting them loose and selling them... sigh
At the north corner of my block is a pole with a 5-way junction to the single phase hot lead (7,000 volts in my area.) In 2004 we had four serious hurricanes in short order; my neighborhood was without power a whole bunch and line work was nearly continuous.
One of the five leads crossed the road to a pole on an empty lot with a transformer! it has been an empty lot for many years. However, the offending branch from the 5-way junction was a lead that crossed the street and entered a tree covered area of a county park on its way to the park center service entrance. That lead had about 5 splices from being snapped by blowing trees.
I pointed out to the utility crew supervisor that a shorter clear path to the park center was available around the corner to the north of the park that would only require one intermediate pole and no obstructions to endanger the hot lead. The useless line to the empty lot with transformer was also easy to eliminate although there were no trees intervening.
Amazingly the supervisor told me that the transmission line could not be redirected without permission from the state utility board!❗
So the solution the utility employed was to place those 'fuses' (pictured earlier) on all five lines at the junction on that pole. Well, I guess that eliminated a bunch of community power outages. 🤷
My lasting memory of Anne Burrell is coming around a corner in her then recently opened Brooklyn restaurant, Phil & Anne’s Good Time Lounge, and seeing her face register disappointment at the sight of me, a white, late middle-aged man clean shaven and dressed as one not working in a “creative” field.
The restaurant closed a year later.
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Stealing those ground wires is common - and at a minimum, renders the “shielding” feature ineffective because the path to ground is much less direct, higher resistance. They were stealing grounds in a couple of our high-voltage substation in a bad neighborhood, and we ended up replacing the wire with an inferior conductor but one that has little resale value. Copper is pretty valuable. Steel is not.
It’s a safety issue also. Back when I worked in Ohio, it was common, especially around nicer cities like Youngstown (sarc), for thieves to steal the ground wires off of line switches that were manually operated by linemen on our 69 and 138 KV systems. Now, the grounding on the switch is very critical because it is a safety device for the operator should the switch break during the operation. It literally grounds the entire mechanism that the lineman operates so if a switch should break - a blade come loose, insulator breaks off, or whatever - and the mechanism get into contact with the energized conductors, it immediately goes to ground through the grounding wire instead of through the operator.
Anyway, linemen were advised (as they should do anyway) to check for the ground being intact all the way from the top of the switch hardware down to the grounding rod(s) pounded into the earth so that they knew that that safety feature was still there.
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I probably stole this from you, too. (But, I did so with great honor) 😂
Liberals are the most judgmental people on the planet.
(Bows humbly.)
Yet another “healthy” person who died suddenly. I wonder if the embalmer will have trouble with his task because of the fibrous white rubber filling her veins? Inquiring minds want to know, but we never will.
Haha! That’s funny.
By my count she got 4 shots total based on her social posts. I liked her. She had an amazing instinct for flavor combinations and rock solid procedural methods. And most of all she had fun cooking and you could really tell.
Funny moment...
Anne Burrel and Guido Fieri meeting for the first time.
“A sister from another mother.”
“The smoking lamp is lit”
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