Lighing strikes High Voltage lines on my way home..

[Cookieman00x]

On my way home from the beach.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SveJj9gkuZg

[bmatyeah]

you must have been bored to be filming a rainy drive. Im surprised how fast the lights went back on.

[Whitekryptonit3]

Originally Posted by bmatyeah

you must have been bored to be filming a rainy drive. Im surprised how fast the lights went back on.

The neutral can absorb an additional 20-40,000 volts including the remaining line feed. Also, if you look closely you can see the arch stranglers being deployed from the pole. ( Former US AF Electrical Engineer)

[Vr-4-Life]

wow amazingg man

[Keeper1343]

I just saw your other video... You need to work on your grouping seriously lol. Sweet lightning video tho.

[speedooo]

sweet jesus

[marshallpre1]

Damn it, I can't see your video at work, but since I design transmission lines for a living, I deal with lightning all the time I'll check it out at home.

[Rush]

That was awesome.

My boyfriend and I drove home through that line of storms yesterday -- from LBI in NJ out to the Harrisburg area. Almost the whole way through Jersey and into the easternmost part of PA was a mess. We had to drive around three trees that had fallen across the road -- one 'em was on the PA Turnpike, that really effed up traffic. Took us over 4 hours to get home, when it usually takes 3 hours at the most.

[DPancoast]

thats pretty awesome

[05Accent]

sweet!!

[asdfasdf128]

thats crazy

[Cookieman00x]

Yeah, it was a show for sure...

They were transmission lines actually, and telephone pole was the first thing that came to mind. Im guessing a min of 130kv ... Listen to a 500kv breaker close in, now that scared the crap out of me. Working in the transmission and substations dept. for PECO I get to see cool electrical stuff from time to time..

[SpEcRv9]

dayum!

[teh DIRT]

yeah i drove through it in ocean city, MD on my way back to CT. Lot of dust swirls, no twisters

[mckpat03]

Pretty crazy. On a side note, I was in the middle of Raystown Lake for the entire duration of the storms.

[Maxxdsix]

Wow.

I was outside at NOPI fighting against a huge tent trying to save a bunch of car tuners for the guys I was buying something from, needless to say I need new shoes :P

But why were you filming? just random and happened to catch something awesome?

[JankyS13]

thats awesome I just kept clicking it about 8 times at the point of impact and saw all sorts of different lights and shapes from it...

oh and btw I just made you famous. lol

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yup i sent in the link of the video w/ your addy from another thread here and your screen name. lol "would be funny if they actually call and air that ****.

[Cookieman00x]

Originally Posted by Maxxdsix

Wow.

I was outside at NOPI fighting against a huge tent trying to save a bunch of car tuners for the guys I was buying something from, needless to say I need new shoes :P

But why were you filming? just random and happened to catch something awesome?

Yeah, it was just random... I noticed lightning strikes around me so I figured what the hell...

Originally Posted by JankyS13

thats awesome I just kept clicking it about 8 times at the point of impact and saw all sorts of different lights and shapes from it...

oh and btw I just made you famous. lol



yup i sent in the link of the video w/ your addy from another thread here and your screen name. lol "would be funny if they actually call and air that ****.

Thats awsome, thanks. I was thinking about doing the same thing, they may have to edit the language though.

[Khellen]

Holy cow, never realized how many electrical workers we have on this forum. We need to make a thread full of the wacky stuff we find out in the field. I've got plenty of crazy pictures from working in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Btw, what substation were you at that had a 500kv breaker in Jersey? The only 500kv substation I've been too so far was at three mile island. Unfortunately I wasnt there during any kind of switching but just being in a 500kv sub was kind of awe inspiring.

Edit:

Just found this video while watching yours, pretty neat. They shoot a rocket into a storm cloud with a copper wire attached. Nifty!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmUpJ...eature=related

[marshallpre1]

Originally Posted by Khellen

Holy cow, never realized how many electrical workers we have on this forum. We need to make a thread full of the wacky stuff we find out in the field. I've got plenty of crazy pictures from working in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Btw, what substation were you at that had a 500kv breaker in Jersey? The only 500kv substation I've been too so far was at three mile island. Unfortunately I wasnt there during any kind of switching but just being in a 500kv sub was kind of awe inspiring.

Edit:

Just found this video while watching yours, pretty neat. They shoot a rocket into a storm cloud with a copper wire attached. Nifty!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmUpJ...eature=related

Unfortunately, I'm a transmission design engineer, so I stay in the office 90% of the time. I only get to see what my foremen bring in, LOL or if we have some major failures..