@@whatsomeonesaidwastaken9216 A recloser can be in a few forms, but it basically takes the place of a fuse which would normally blow to open the circuit to de-energize it in the event of a fault. A recloser, unlike a fuse, is a multi use "fuse" meaning if there is a fault, it will open the circuit and then close it again after a few seconds incase the fault was only a temporary one like an animal getting cooked. If the fault persists, it will repeat this process for a set number of times (usually 4) to see if the fault will clear so that the utility companies dont have to send a lineman out to fix it.
I once saw this same thing happening but the transformers and wires were laying over hood of a car that crashed into the pole. The driver was terrified inside the car these wires are jumping around arcing right in her face all around her car. The car was smoking fluids running out from under it. Lucky for her wasn't any fuel spilled most modern cars have a shut off switch kills the electric fuel pump when get into a crash. Police officer drove up close as he could with his car and yelled over the PA for her to stay in her car not touch any metal in the car. It arced more times eventually stopped she stayed in her car until power utility trucks showed up. I stuck around to give a statement to the crash.
I found this exact spot on Google Maps. It's so interesting to see the image of the street view prior to 2012 because the tree is there, but then if you change the view to after 2012, the tree disappears.
Different feed maybe? Just because they are right there doesn't mean they are connected. My neighbour and I receive power from two different 88,000 distributors about 4km apart. If we both go off, that means nearly most of northern Johannesburg is out (very rare).
I was in NY during Sandy last year. One year later, and around the same date (27th October) another hurricane-like storm is hitting the south of Britain, where I live. Weather just loves me.
@@ghalgren I am and Caden is correct that they vent. Flaming oil??? No, not so much.... There was no transformer in this video. Transformers are protected by fuses and rarely explode.
@@Cory.Robson the vent only works sometimes, I had an old distribution transformer on my block that exploded like a bomb one summer night a year ago. The vent didn’t fully work and the thing built up pressure and the entire can went off.
U.S.A.: naked copper cables on wooden poles that carry over 10K volts, right where people need to walk or drive. Europe: isolated cables on concrete poles that carry 400V where people walk or drive, and only naked cables for everything over 36K volts, but placed where nobody ever comes (like fields). + most of our cables are just under the ground (except for the really high voltage ones, but they'll never be placed close to where people come or live).
I live on the 16th floor I can't even see any air born cables apart from what's above the train tracks. I can see a 220 kV backbone power line in the distance though :D
I remember Hurricane Sandy like it was yesterday, man. I only just turned 4 on the 8 of October, we had to pack food, and pump out water from the toilets and bathtubs, the crazy thing was that I live at the top of New Jersey, so the flooding and rain was extravagant. October 29, 2012 - November 3, 2012.
Actually we do, here in the wet where I live, there are breakers on the HV systems all over town including the substations. There are probably some older systems in the east I imagine but the east is very old and are somewhere the schedules to be updated. due to the miles and miles of line, you can't just upgrade the whole east coast at once due to extreme cost.
If they ran everything underground your power bill would at least be 6 times higher if not more. When things fail above ground they are easy to correct, when they fail underground it's road construction. To install underground or upgrade underground systems, the cost is much higher than above ground due to sidewalks, roads, homes, yards, etc... Finally, underground is not any more safe, people dig up power lines and get hurt all the time, frankly, fewer people get hurt in above ground systems
I was there during Sandy, l havent seen before in my life this kind of storm after everything turned normal l came back to Texas. After Sandy a few weeks later there was Snow storm and that supported me to decide to move :)
I went to this location on google maps and they added a new powerline, it looks honestly better, you can still see the tree on google maps, but if you go into the future you won't see it anymore. Just a memory of it.
Not really, here in the UK, primaries are always run underground in urban areas, with secondary area substations housed in small brick buildings, or in a fenced area. It's a lot safer and less prone to faults, such as this.
I remember the Ice storm last year In New Milford and I a lot of crackling every where the trees came down one by one . Block after Block every where .
That tree fell because of all the paving and street building around it cut off all its roots. It's minimal branches it had left on the canopy and long lean was apparent enough it was going to fall over already. It had been dead and barely alive for many years.
Wooden poles, and trees not kept clear from power lines. Where I live power company replaced all the wooden poles with steel and trees are kept cut back we have summer thunderstorms with microburst.
It was a circuit breaker. At 0:48 the breaker re-closes in case it's a transient short circuit. (It isn't) It might have done that a few more times after the video ended. A fuse can't reset itself.
plus in the southern part of the untied states, like Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas are below sea level so they can't have all of the electricity underground
hyvahyva...Thanks! Everybody always blames transformers! However (minus the loud exclamation) this is a good video of infrastructure being torn down. The tree hit the lines as it came down, snapping the upstream pole, all on camera. Yeah, the recloser did its classic "3 strikes you're out" before locking itself out. Again great video...
By the way, kids, never look at an electric arc like this. It's no different than an electric welder. It can easily blind you. It can even damage your vision with your eyes closed.
No, they've been underground for over 50 years in most urban areas here in the UK and faults aren't too common. To find one, you simply use a HV thumper.
Doesn't take much to get a tree down up north. That's why a cat1 storm anywhere north of Georgia does so much damage. In Florida we can get a cat 3 and the trees just take it!
When the lines get taken out by the tree, it's not a transformer near the traffic lights that was taken out, it's actually a street light the was taken out. You can see the debris from it at 0:40
Nah Dude. The bigger pole supports the main power line (feeder) and the smaller pole supports neighbourhood power line (lateral) or service line. Prolly there was an overhead transformer as well but we could not see very well in this video.
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Love how the power line road raged at the guy beeping it.
B day 0:46
A day 0:49
That burst of sparks was just the result of a breaker upstream attempting to automatically reclose. It wasn't the transformer cooking.
What does reclosing do and why did it make sparks
@@whatsomeonesaidwastaken9216 A recloser can be in a few forms, but it basically takes the place of a fuse which would normally blow to open the circuit to de-energize it in the event of a fault. A recloser, unlike a fuse, is a multi use "fuse" meaning if there is a fault, it will open the circuit and then close it again after a few seconds incase the fault was only a temporary one like an animal getting cooked. If the fault persists, it will repeat this process for a set number of times (usually 4) to see if the fault will clear so that the utility companies dont have to send a lineman out to fix it.
@@victorkirby7652Holy cow i visually saw it through a 2D diagram as I read this :v
Eletricity is terrifying but the f word is horrifying
I once saw this same thing happening but the transformers and wires were laying over hood of a car that crashed into the pole. The driver was terrified inside the car these wires are jumping around arcing right in her face all around her car. The car was smoking fluids running out from under it. Lucky for her wasn't any fuel spilled most modern cars have a shut off switch kills the electric fuel pump when get into a crash. Police officer drove up close as he could with his car and yelled over the PA for her to stay in her car not touch any metal in the car. It arced more times eventually stopped she stayed in her car until power utility trucks showed up. I stuck around to give a statement to the crash.
tree was like FUCK THE POWER GRID
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The sound of the electricity is awesome
Humming at 60 cycle per second (American system)
@@meongmeong3599 brazilian system too, but more agressive look this video
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It's beautiful
@@meongmeong3599 in brazil we have 60hz too
It isn't when it's in your body
0:44 FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFAUCK.
YOU CAN SAY FUCK THIS IS STILL AMERICA !!!!
He sounds like he's from BAH-Stin and not New Joy-see.
At 0:47 the car's like "Dude get out of the road!" and the pole answers like "F YOU I'LL DO WHAT I WANT!!!"
This deserved way more than 1 like per month on average
LMAO How does this only have 69 likes. Btw I changed it to 70 ;-;
Guess no one’s gonna mention how the stop lights are still working although the power lines broke
I found this exact spot on Google Maps. It's so interesting to see the image of the street view prior to 2012 because the tree is there, but then if you change the view to after 2012, the tree disappears.
Same here. I just got the coordinates from one of the below comments
2011 2009 2007 2005 2003 2001 1999
@@epopchock it was in the same day and month
The tree is gone because it fell over.
RIP Tree
I love how the you can hear the car honks, and then the broken pole responds with lots of arcing.
Pole: Mafaka try me.
FACK!
Sound like Trevor Phillips
that's dangerous people can accidentally hit the transformer
+Brianna Simmons That's where natural selection comes in...
Dont say that
You said a bad word
Kudos for not dropping the camera to your shoes at the decisive moment! Well-done!
Only women do that....
@@FourDollaRacing speaking from personal experience?
and yet the traffic lights are still working
I noticed that as well. Either the phase that was powering them didn't go out, or, the signal controller has a backup battery.
It probably has a battery, though usually when the power goes out they start flashing but eh-
@@mattatiger2773 they flash after a surge or when power gets restored. There's a switch you'd use to reset them
Different feed maybe?
Just because they are right there doesn't mean they are connected.
My neighbour and I receive power from two different 88,000 distributors about 4km apart.
If we both go off, that means nearly most of northern Johannesburg is out (very rare).
Battery backup
that driver.. was so lucky !!
I was in NY during Sandy last year. One year later, and around the same date (27th October) another hurricane-like storm is hitting the south of Britain, where I live. Weather just loves me.
Car: Beep beep.
Power line: SAY WHAT U LITTLE SH1T
0:46 when someone beeps at you and you beep back
no transformer exploded it's just an arc from the phases shorting out
And usually when a transformer does have a problem it’s just the pressure release shooting out flaming oil, no explosion
still wouldn’t want to be anywhere near that tho
@@infl You in the electrical industry? I bet not...
@@ghalgren I am and Caden is correct that they vent. Flaming oil??? No, not so much....
There was no transformer in this video. Transformers are protected by fuses and rarely explode.
@@Cory.Robson the vent only works sometimes, I had an old distribution transformer on my block that exploded like a bomb one summer night a year ago. The vent didn’t fully work and the thing built up pressure and the entire can went off.
Been searching for videos like this, VERY well done and and stunned you got it at the time it happened. ;)
I was just waiting to see how long it would be before that leaning tree came down.
Dude in the pickup at 0:22 made it through just in time.😅
The pickup truck passing thru at 0:22 brings to mind the famous "luckiest guy in iraq" vid from the first gulf war
That gmc Sierra was lucky
Just 12 seconds ahead of disaster.
The tree was like: The lights red time to fall!
Thats the most amazing video I have seen in a while. Great catch!!!!!
U.S.A.: naked copper cables on wooden poles that carry over 10K volts, right where people need to walk or drive.
Europe: isolated cables on concrete poles that carry 400V where people walk or drive, and only naked cables for everything over 36K volts, but placed where nobody ever comes (like fields).
+ most of our cables are just under the ground (except for the really high voltage ones, but they'll never be placed close to where people come or live).
+Riley Wells it's because we "need" to spend even more fucking money on military!
I live on the 16th floor I can't even see any air born cables apart from what's above the train tracks. I can see a 220 kV backbone power line in the distance though :D
Wood is cost ineffective? Interesting.
The ironic part is that the US and Canada are subject to much more extreme weather than Europe is, despite having worse infrastructure.
***** Wooden poles are very cheap.
www.americantimberandsteel.com/poles-pilings-utility-poles-unframed-cca.html
The only I see is the street light break off when the tree hit the power lines, great video
Tree: I can’t help it it’s too windy
Transformer:You better not come down
Tree:well here I come
Transformer:NOOO
0:28
Thomas Gaming ITS NOT A TRANSFORMER ITS JUST AN ARC FROM DIFFERENT WIRES/FASES SHORT CIRCUITING
0:34 tree was like "I wanna see what is like to cause the apocolypse
0:32
All that electricity, crashing, and glass shattering actually sounds pretty cool.
The supposed glass sound is the power lines themselves hitting the ground and sliding on it. They are literally just thick metal cables
@@EphemeralProductions no it’s the light
Amazing, at 0:22 car was driving underneath the tree, and 0:33, only 11 seconds later, tree was down. And video timing... just spot on.
0:22 car, 0:33 tree was down.
Can't believe you were there to capture this---scary!
In Canada it's mostly wooden poles too.
wow!! great video! I live nearby. Thank goodness no one was hurt! And good for you that you kept rollin!
0:33 when you stick a paper clip in an outlet.
I dont know why I am laughing so hard about this :D
I remember Hurricane Sandy like it was yesterday, man. I only just turned 4 on the 8 of October, we had to pack food, and pump out water from the toilets and bathtubs, the crazy thing was that I live at the top of New Jersey, so the flooding and rain was extravagant. October 29, 2012 - November 3, 2012.
Great footage good thing you captured when the tree fell and the power lines fell and exploded
Awesome video Alex
Actually we do, here in the wet where I live, there are breakers on the HV systems all over town including the substations. There are probably some older systems in the east I imagine but the east is very old and are somewhere the schedules to be updated. due to the miles and miles of line, you can't just upgrade the whole east coast at once due to extreme cost.
Driver: "Get off the road!"
Power Line: "How about you F#@& off!"
Driver: “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH WTF!!!!!”
If they ran everything underground your power bill would at least be 6 times higher if not more. When things fail above ground they are easy to correct, when they fail underground it's road construction. To install underground or upgrade underground systems, the cost is much higher than above ground due to sidewalks, roads, homes, yards, etc... Finally, underground is not any more safe, people dig up power lines and get hurt all the time, frankly, fewer people get hurt in above ground systems
Tx. I glade that everyone passed that intersection before tree fell, and Cliffside police been on the scene 30 sec. after to block traffic
I liked when the guy beeped the horn 😂
I was there during Sandy, l havent seen before in my life this kind of storm after everything turned normal l came back to Texas. After Sandy a few weeks later there was Snow storm and that supported me to decide to move :)
Glad nobody was on that part of the road when it came crashing down. And yes, nice Evo there ;)
I don't think it knocked out power, because if you look at the walk sign, it is still on.
For someone, it probably did.
:| ... i think walk signs have there own power
***** They Also have Back up emergency batteries in cases of power outtages.
Lance Nickel could have been ona different circuit than the lines were serving.
0:20 That Person/people in that truck were SO lucky.
Fack!
Matheus Carvalho
The delayed response is priceless.
He was quoting the cameraman saying fuck.
@Sasha Coleman r/woooooosh
Looks like Michael Bay was shooting another Transformers movie.
“So do you snort it or is it a pill?” ..”None of those? So you inject it?” ..”Not that either... hmm..” 😂
The video is awesome. I've never seen such a destruction of the neighborhood.
Awesome Video! Those Traffic lights are haning on for dear life!
Beautiful! But werent we all expecting/hoping the swinging lights would come down!
How would the power stop going threw the lines? Does someone turn it off or does it automatically turn off?
I went to this location on google maps and they added a new powerline, it looks honestly better, you can still see the tree on google maps, but if you go into the future you won't see it anymore. Just a memory of it.
Great video neighbor!!
Plus, they run primaries overhead through urban settlements which is ridiculously dangerous.
Not really, here in the UK, primaries are always run underground in urban areas, with secondary area substations housed in small brick buildings, or in a fenced area. It's a lot safer and less prone to faults, such as this.
That is amazing thank you. I hope hat tree didnt damage anything really bad other then wires and poles. Trees here kept taking out houses and cars.
Legends Say that the power is still out to this day
I remember the Ice storm last year In New Milford and I a lot of crackling every where the trees came down one by one . Block after Block every where .
I love the electricity sound. It's so good
Yeah the east coast really got hit hard with that super storm
That tree fell because of all the paving and street building around it cut off all its roots. It's minimal branches it had left on the canopy and long lean was apparent enough it was going to fall over already. It had been dead and barely alive for many years.
Who was hoping to see bumblebee?
Holy shit! That was nuts!
Wooden poles, and trees not kept clear from power lines. Where I live power company replaced all the wooden poles with steel and trees are kept cut back we have summer thunderstorms with microburst.
And you just managed to be there
"Fack"
no worry! The power is still on so that means that the fuse to the circuet didn't think that was a problem
It was a circuit breaker. At 0:48 the breaker re-closes in case it's a transient short circuit. (It isn't) It might have done that a few more times after the video ended. A fuse can't reset itself.
That guy in the black truck is just lucky
Still can't get over how that pole was just ripped down and busted clean in half! :\
Electricity is so beautiful
fell right next to my aunt's balcony!! :O
I'm glad people got through when they did. Its scary for some ppl
Wow great capture!!!!
plus in the southern part of the untied states, like Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas are below sea level so they can't have all of the electricity underground
hyvahyva...Thanks! Everybody always blames transformers! However (minus the loud exclamation) this is a good video of infrastructure being torn down. The tree hit the lines as it came down, snapping the upstream pole, all on camera. Yeah, the recloser did its classic "3 strikes you're out" before locking itself out. Again great video...
By the way, kids, never look at an electric arc like this. It's no different than an electric welder. It can easily blind you. It can even damage your vision with your eyes closed.
No, they've been underground for over 50 years in most urban areas here in the UK and faults aren't too common. To find one, you simply use a HV thumper.
The transformer was like: but wait, there is more!
I truly lmao when he said "fuck" Hahaha
Yea.......encourage that for PUBLIC access platforms, moron!
@@gregakinson2800 did you watch the clip? afterbirth?
Wow nice footage.
said the same exact thing when the lighting fixture fell off the pole that day didn't loose power till later on that night
Phone rings......"This is a callout...."
Doesn't take much to get a tree down up north. That's why a cat1 storm anywhere north of Georgia does so much damage. In Florida we can get a cat 3 and the trees just take it!
For some reason, i found funny how the pole came down.
I live here! Doctor Oz loves right down the street
That was amazing!
I love it dude your so famous
It's Like The Tree Didn't Care About The Power Lines
Holy Shit that Tree
0:45 Driver honking: Excuse me, you cant park there...
Pole: F*** off...⚡️⚡️
Tree: TRLOLOLOL
Power Lines: You're not funny...
Did anyone notice but when the car honked the power line spoke back or is it just me
traffic light have there own power box witch has its own ellectricity
Oh wow! Fortunately, there wasn't any pedestrian in the area!
Nice video catch and one of the best F words I have ever heard!
omg thats crazy!! did you record this knowing that it was about to fall?
No, it would be great. It is more expensive though and yeah would be more difficult to repair sometimes but a lot less frequently.
how hard was the wind blowing by mph.
When the lines get taken out by the tree, it's not a transformer near the traffic lights that was taken out, it's actually a street light the was taken out. You can see the debris from it at 0:40
Nah Dude. The bigger pole supports the main power line (feeder) and the smaller pole supports neighbourhood power line (lateral) or service line. Prolly there was an overhead transformer as well but we could not see very well in this video.
Nobody:
Guy: “FACK!”