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Some Bad Decisions Are Only Made Once

Friday, 9 March 2018, 16:15 Dr. Tar Uncategorized 28

A driver in New Jersey ignored barricades blocking a stretch of road after the latest round of seasonal snow storms. The barriers were there to keep vehicles off downed power lines. More

 

 

28 Comments on Some Bad Decisions Are Only Made Once

  10. Isn’t that the same mentality involved in the trash truck that skirted the railroad cross arms in Crozet, VA colliding with the Amtrak train with congressmen on it?

    Hey! Don’t walk on the ice. It’s too thin.
    Hey! JFK jr. you’re not an instrument rated pilot.
    Hey! The river is up. Don’t kayak.

    The list goes on and on.

  11. Downed power lines scare the hell out of me.

    Gotta watch for trains too.
    In Indiana yesterday a woman was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
    She was high on pot and drove in front of a train.
    She survived but her two young children didn’t.

  16. Something like that happened in the late 80s in Minneapolis. Early summer thunderstorm that acted like a hurricane. It kept circling and dumped 12 inches of rain in about 4 hours. Every river was flooding; even the itty bitty creek that ran by my apartment building. The road over the creek had washed away but the height of the creek was just a little bit over what would have been the road.

    There were barricades to keep people from driving the road, but some teenager figured it was ridiculous since it was only “an inch or two” over the road. They found his car with his body still buckled in about 10 miles downstream.

  22. Alrighty, I’ll play the devil’s advocate here.
    I’m sure we have all heard how if you are in a car when lightning strikes it, you are protected, supposedly because of the insulative properties of automobile tires, prevent the lightning from going to ground.
    Why didn’t that concept work in reverse?
    Why WASN’T he protected by his tires, or is that lightening strike advice just B.S.?

  24. Radioationman knows a thing or 2
    about that high voltage…
    The best smoke down & french fry
    I ever seen.Looks like maybe 67kv or 138kv.
    Stuff you “thought” was an insulator at
    138kv HA HA HA SURPRISE !!!

  25. In a Navy electronics training manual ( early 1970s) there was a picture that appeared to be from mid 1950s of a man exiting a utility truck that had downed power lines laying across the truck. He was exiting the passenger side door. Arm on the door, one foot on the running board, one foot on the ground. Smoke was rolling off the guy. He should have either stayed in the truck till the power was turned off or jumped to the ground. By stepping off he completed the circuit to the ground. Ships being mostly metal the Navy regards any.voltage above 15v potentially fatal.

  26. Anon,as a cell phone tech for 10
    years I can tell you that lightning
    makes it’s own rules on every strike.
    It just jumped 6000′ with 5,000,000,000
    volts at 18,000 amperes.You think your
    little bitty “rubber” tire is going to save you???
    Lightning will always find a path to ground
    and it can come back up from the ground and
    travel thru wiring causing more damage.

  27. These guys know how to deal with energized power lines. They earn every penny of their pay imo.

    Helicopter Maintenance on energized 765,000 Volt Line

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x94BH9TUiHM .

    One of those 765kv transmission lines runs N-S just west of my house. One evening about three years ago one of the conducting lines broke an fell to the ground. There was a loud pop, and a really bright short flash of light. By daylight they had it repaired. How they did it, and in the dark too, I don’t know. But it was impressive work. I’ve never seen maintenance workers on the lines, but neighbors have told me they have seen them from time to time.

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