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    Junior Member stormgrey is on a distinguished road
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    Default Just in case you forgot....

    Water and electricity dont play well together!!!!!
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    Default Re: Just in case you forgot....

    WOW. I take it the water level got above all the terminals in the transformer. I did see a few phone peds yesterday that were underwater. I never even thought of what it would do to a transformer.

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    Wish I had taken pics of a phone ped after it got smoked last year. A guy installing sheet metal roofing got too close to some power lines. He contacted one of the lines, the current went through him to ground and set a phone ped 200 feet away with 5 cables running into it a blaze.

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    Senior Member AULupstate will become famous soon enough
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    I see phone peds half under water, transformer boxes half under water. Where I am right is a joke when it rains, it just sits there for 2 or 3 days. Hell my boots are muddy today and it was 85 and sunny all day.

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    Junior Member stormgrey is on a distinguished road
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    By the way, that white stuff on the cable ends in the 2nd pic were the remains of some poor fury woodland creature.

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    The fios project in va the contractor hit a primary which surged the telephone ped which surged thru the phone line and set a house on fire. dont ask me how why or wtf? all i now is we saw the pics and got a brief overview of that situation because the company didnt want to buy a house.

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    well ......i guess the electric guys will get plenty of ot......and then plenty for us ............

 

 

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