Re: Transformer fires..

We get, ah....."interesting" weather here in Central Okla. Just about
every spring and fall we have outbreaks of severe weather. Sometimes I go
to the OU campus, to one of the tallest buildings in the area and watch the
storms blow in. You can frequently tell where gust fronts are by the
progression of blown transformers and power line flashes.

On a side note, I was at a friend's farm just outside Oplin, TX when a big
lightning storm came through. Being way outside "civilization", the power
came down 3 17KV(?) lines. Every time there was a nearby lightning strike,
the lines would glow pink for a few seconds and hum loudly. What was
especially strange was you could see the pink glow progress down the power
lines up to the locan transformer.
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