Telephone wires on fire Dec5/12 Correlates with MASSIVE CME edited out by NASA???

[Czarek]

Can any one confirm this took place in Texas recently?
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[ThePythonicCow]

Can any one confirm this took place in Texas recently?
Confirm what took place in Texas, and where within this video is this mentioned?

[Flash]

Can any one confirm this took place in Texas recently?
Confirm what took place in Texas, and where within this video is this mentioned?

6.51 min and 7:30 and 9:53

[Vitalux]

It seems odd where he points out where the images for certain dates are missing from the pubic record.
Which would tend to back up the OP claim of information being purposefully withheld from the public.

I recall a couple weeks back here on Avalon, about a meteor strike somewhere in the USA where it was down played or ignored in the press. I think one report in the media was that some explosives were set off at a military base.


Just seems a bit odd with the timing this month...

Would be interesting to learn if anyone from Texas on Avalon has heard any report of severe telephone or power outages due to damaged systems :confused:

[ThePythonicCow]

Would be interesting to learn if anyone from Texas on Avalon has heard any report of severe telephone or power outages due to damaged systems :confused:
I didn't see anything, but (1) Texas is a big place and (2) I am on my computer more than watching the sky.

Perhaps the report refers to this: Mysterious green flash streak across sky (Houston Chronicle, December 7, 2012) (http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Mysterious-green-flash-streak-across-sky-4099311.php).

[GoodETxSG]

Yea, some transformers caught fire is different cities around TX and some of the poles aught on fire... but TX and other states have mentioned "Thunder" or rumbling under ground, lights and/or fire balls in the sky during the day and night.... sounds from the sky, like booms and other weird noises... etc... SO, I think something is going on. Is it Solar related, causing geology and atmospheric anomalies? I do not know. But there are some weird things happening...

[Calz]

Here is a story (not sure if the vid is the same as posted in the OP as I am behind a firewall ...

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Power poles burst into flames in Texas one day before Meteorite sightings

KWTX.com
Sun, 09 Dec 2012 14:28 CST


WACO - Power poles in as many as five Central Texas counties were burning Thursday morning, [Dec. 6th] and authorities were trying to find out why.

A Department of Public Safety communications officer said power poles in Hill, Falls, Bell, Williamson and McLennan counties mysteriously began bursting into flames at about 4 a.m. Thursday.

He said the fires that had been reported were burning at the tops of the poles, some involving transformers.

Various power company representatives had been dispatched to survey the damage and several fire departments were sent to douse the flames.

One power company technician told a News 10 reporter near McGregor that the fires likely were caused by a build up of dust on transformers that shorted out due to low-lying fog.

Mike Cain, spokesman for Oncor, said he could not confirm that cause for all the locations but that power company inspectors were out trying to determine the cause of the fires.

The Oncor web page showed a total of 4,253 customers without power in McLennan, Bell, Falls and Williamson counties as of 8 a.m.

Cain said crews should have power restored to those customers by mid-day.

As many as 30 power poles were burning in one area of Hill County, just off Interstate 35 at mile marker 361.

As many as 20 poles were reported burning in Bynum east of Hillsboro and and others in the Aquilla area where some customers were without power.

There were poles on fire along Highway 6 near Falls County roads 112 and 113 that had forced closure of Highway 6 and had stopped trains along an adjacent railroad line for about an hour but traffic was moving normally by about 5:45 a.m.

Some limited power outages were reported in the area around Perry, just north of Marlin.

Power pole fires also were reported in at least two locations in Waco, just north of Troy, just south of the Falls County line on Interstate 35 in Bell County, near Lorena and west of Waco along U.S. Highway 84.

Areas of west Waco were without power at about 6:20 a.m.after transformers failed near Hillcrest Hospital.

Baylor University reported portions of campus were in the dark at about 7 a.m.

Traffic lights were reported out at Texas Central Parkway near Imperial Drive and along Bagby near the Marketplace.

Police officers had been dispatched to direct traffic as commuters headed out for the morning.

Fire departments in McGregor and Moody were dealing with power pole fires as well.


http://www.sott.net/article/254543-Power-poles-burst-into-flames-in-Texas-one-day-before-Meteorite-sightings

[Mandala]

One power company technician told a News 10 reporter near McGregor that the fires likely were caused by a build up of dust on transformers that shorted out due to low-lying fog.

Calz, I guess they better get out their feather dusters and clean those transformers a little better. Wow, dust and low-lying fog. Interesting.

[Calz]

One power company technician told a News 10 reporter near McGregor that the fires likely were caused by a build up of dust on transformers that shorted out due to low-lying fog.

Calz, I guess they better get out their feather dusters and clean those transformers a little better. Wow, dust and low-lying fog. Interesting.

Yeah that ranks right up with with weather balloons and chinese lanterns eh? :nod:

Here are a couple of reader comments from that link:

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Electrical Connection By: Seeker


I suspect that the SOTT team are alluding to a possible electrical discharge from the charged atmosphere created by the approaching highly charged fragments. Exploring the electric universe theory and in particular the electrical nature of comets will give you the clues to the answers you seek. Comets are not dirty snow balls but highly energetically charged and complex entities whose arrival in many forms - dust, fragments, larger pieces - will excite discharge situations, and in particular likely lead to multiple power failures and transformer blow outs. Be prepared over the coming months to learn just how interconnected the above and below is.

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 16:58 CST

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Don't Forget Solar Flares In Combo By: Rowan Cocoan

Don't Forget Solar Flares In Combination with above potentialities.

Solar Flares clearly can cause exactly these type or problems. I imagine if our protective ionosphere, atmosphere, Allen belts, and other things not known, which constitute Earth's "blanket," were gone, these events would happen constantly. If that blanket had a slight tear in it then the energy would slip past that blanket through the rip and dow to earth. (Just as you can feel the heat going out and the cold coming in through a tear in your blanket on a bed.)

All of these involve subtle, yet potentially hugely powerful, interplays between every bit of matter OR radiation, and the possibility of occasional (or regular/wave like) synergistic strengthening of separate events/variations from "normal."

R.C.

[CD7]

At work on the 7th, i was in a computer lab where half the computers in the room just shut down, and my phone shut down three times and rebooted itself...my phone is still not the way it was as shortcut icons on the front of my phone disappeared and did not return...

AND...incidentally it is HOT here in Fl :flame:---have the flip flops and shorts workin...i feel like its summer and it trips me out when i see the snow and cold going on half way up the globe...feel like im on another planet watching someone else's weather

Also yesterday looked up at the sun around 3PM and it was very bright light...and the sun seemed bigger

[Vitalux]

This is really neat!:thumb:

Here on Avalon there are enough people world wide that we can compare notes.

So what the OP is talking about has a real basis.

Telephone poles at least in Texas did catch fire and there was odd interruptions with the power systems.


Wouldn't it be wonderful if the corporate news media of America could just be honest with us for a change.
Wild to think that people have to come to Avalon to find out what is going on.

Avalon in someways is like a small town where good folk gather to find out "what is going on":gossip:

I live in Ontario Canada and I have never heard of poles catching fire due to a dust build up.:confused:

[Wind]

It's almost too funny to see how desperate they are with their cover stories.

[Referee]

Some bloggers have therorized that the build up of aluminum dust via chemtrails may have contributed to the fires. Strange that fog or supersaturated air was a contributing factor.

[Lazlo]

I firmly believe that this is a case where the official story is correct and the populace is so used to lies and half-truths that they can't recognize legitimate news.

Dust build up on insulators does cause fires if they are not cleaned regularly. I budget high pressure cleaning into every substation and power plant that I operate.

In layman's terms, it's like getting a fire in your clothes dryer if you fail to clean out the vent and lint screen.

However, lest we forget, there are two commonly forgotten lessons in the story of the boy who cried wolf:
There ultimately was a wolf, and the sheep did get eaten.

[Joe Akulis]

I just flipped through some solar activity charts from last week and the 5th and 6th didn't appear to stand out, as far as sunspot activity. Anyone else got any data that might indicate any jumps in solar stuff that might correlate to the flaming poles date? Otherwise I'm going to figure this was some other cause...

[ghostrider]

I hope this post it locked me out when I tried. Electricity naturally draws dirt, look at the back of a tv, a laptop, a radio, a refrigerator , or a ceiling fan, DUST ?? causing a fire ?? No. power poles have a transformer at the top, looks like a trash can, it has three cables for power, each has a fuse 8-10 inches long, looks like shocks on a car, two cables are hot , one is netrual . the power spikes the fuses trip/break and power is off. they can't catch fire THEY ARE FUSED. They explode with lighting looking burst for a few seconds, they don't catch fire. I've seen them explode , sounds like a shotgun up close. This was from the sun, not dirt. They Never explode more than one at a time, more than two on the same day, you have a huge event, not dirt. 25 years working with electricity I have never seen more than one at a time explode , never two on the same day,in the same area, even on 115 degree days, they are usually reliable, even during lighting storms... 10,000 to 20,000 volts ALL THE TIME.... when have you ever seen the fire dept putting out a transformer after power went out because of a storm or lighting ??????

[Sidney]

I just flipped through some solar activity charts from last week and the 5th and 6th didn't appear to stand out, as far as sunspot activity. Anyone else got any data that might indicate any jumps in solar stuff that might correlate to the flaming poles date? Otherwise I'm going to figure this was some other cause...

I posted that same solar thing image on the solar sunstuff whats up thread. I dont think it was a cme but some sort of galactic wave of sorts. Not sure, but i thought it was weird too. I also want to note that almost the entire US and mexico and canada has been clouded (chemtrailed) in ever since.

[Czarek]

Dust build up on insulators does cause fires if they are not cleaned regularly. I budget high pressure cleaning into every substation and power plant that I operate.

In layman's terms, it's like getting a fire in your clothes dryer if you fail to clean out the vent and lint screen.

Thanks for your input. I guess for any one that's not in the industry (like me for example), it does sound odd that any major dust could accumulate to a degree that could potentially cause fire. Considering that you get wind, and rain cleaning those transformers on regular basis, it just seems not possible but thanks for teaching us a lesson.

[modwiz]

At work on the 7th, i was in a computer lab where half the computers in the room just shut down, and my phone shut down three times and rebooted itself...my phone is still not the way it was as shortcut icons on the front of my phone disappeared and did not return...

AND...incidentally it is HOT here in Fl :flame:---have the flip flops and shorts workin...i feel like its summer and it trips me out when i see the snow and cold going on half way up the globe...feel like im on another planet watching someone else's weather

Also yesterday looked up at the sun around 3PM and it was very bright light...and the sun seemed bigger

I have climate envy. I have to reconfigure my living situation. Next year.

[Flash]

At work on the 7th, i was in a computer lab where half the computers in the room just shut down, and my phone shut down three times and rebooted itself...my phone is still not the way it was as shortcut icons on the front of my phone disappeared and did not return...

AND...incidentally it is HOT here in Fl :flame:---have the flip flops and shorts workin...i feel like its summer and it trips me out when i see the snow and cold going on half way up the globe...feel like im on another planet watching someone else's weather

Also yesterday looked up at the sun around 3PM and it was very bright light...and the sun seemed bigger

I have climate envy. I have to reconfigure my living situation. Next year.

Here it is more than climate envy, it is plain jealousy. But me, to reconfigure, I need a green card.

[KiwiElf]

There have been some massive internet outtages here too. Wonder if it IS solar-connected?

[Flash]

Ok, Modwiz, Czarek, me, and all other Northerners, it is time to buy 30 degrees below sleeping bags and those space blankets. Because without power in winter will freeze our butts. We will be obliged to go to shelters.

[DeDukshyn]

This is really neat!:thumb:

Here on Avalon there are enough people world wide that we can compare notes.

So what the OP is talking about has a real basis.

Telephone poles at least in Texas did catch fire and there was odd interruptions with the power systems.


Wouldn't it be wonderful if the corporate news media of America could just be honest with us for a change.
Wild to think that people have to come to Avalon to find out what is going on.

Avalon in someways is like a small town where good folk gather to find out "what is going on":gossip:

I live in Ontario Canada and I have never heard of poles catching fire due to a dust build up.:confused:

Interesting .. I live in Alberta but have many relatives in BC. Somewhat recently there have been two sawmills in BC that exploded and burned (Burns Lake BC, and Prince George BC). The official result was "dust buildup" for both. I had a relative get badly injured in one of these explosions. While dust is combustible .. it appears there seems to be a hell of a lot of electro-magnetism around lately to make sure it does combust ... doesn't it? That same level of electro-magnetic energy -- likely enough to burn transformers and power lines?

The sun has been "hot" this year and I say we have been lucky our grid hasn't had more disruptions. I think this could all be explained by CMEs potentially.

My 2 cents ;)

[CD7]

At work on the 7th, i was in a computer lab where half the computers in the room just shut down, and my phone shut down three times and rebooted itself...my phone is still not the way it was as shortcut icons on the front of my phone disappeared and did not return...

AND...incidentally it is HOT here in Fl :flame:---have the flip flops and shorts workin...i feel like its summer and it trips me out when i see the snow and cold going on half way up the globe...feel like im on another planet watching someone else's weather

Also yesterday looked up at the sun around 3PM and it was very bright light...and the sun seemed bigger

I have climate envy. I have to reconfigure my living situation. Next year.

Here it is more than climate envy, it is plain jealousy. But me, to reconfigure, I need a green card.



Im sorry did the flaming ball of fire not give it away? lol......................IT IS (((((HOT)))))... not im on a vacation hot, or lets take a stroll along the water hot....HOT like draining hot, bright white hot light hot! haha

Seriously folks it seems to be two extremes..i guess its a matter of wht will u fancy ...the ice house or microwave island!

Interesting changes going on in all directions, if this keeps up pretty soon we wont have to rely on global "connections" to put the pieces together... they'll b too much happening

[Hervé]

If it weren't so sad, this would be totally hilarious, i.e. add water to the dust and create a conductor to initiate an electrical fire:


Austin Local News (http://www.kvue.com/news/local)

Power pole fires leave 3,000 in the dark


http://media.kvue.com/images/QuitaPowerOutages.jpg



News and Photojournalist JOHN FISHER
kvue.com
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 3:42 PM
Updated today at 6:21 PM


AUSTIN -- It's a scenario Austin Energy didn't expect. Thousands woke up without electricity Friday morning, after about 50 power pole fires broke out across the city.
When business owner Greg Phea arrived at Austin Rising Fast Motor Cars, his sign was dark.

“All of our systems were down and we had to reboot them all,” said Phea. “We have backup units and all the backups were depleted, so it was out for a while. They're supposed to stay up for six to nine hours. When we don't have power it's really hard for us to conduct business, it's really impossible to do deals.”

Austin Energy said the first power pole fires started around midnight but the majority happened around 5 a.m.

At the height of the outages, approximately 3,000 customers were without power.
Seventeen crews spent hours trimming poles and repairing electric lines. It's a problem the utility has faced before.

“It looks like we had a record number of power pole fires,” said Austin Energy spokesman Ed Clark.

Clark said the drought played a big role.

“Every electric system in America needs a good washing off periodically and we just haven't had one in a while,” he said.

Without rain, dust and dirt build up on the pole's insulators that connect power lines to the poles.

“So overnight you have mist, just enough water to give it body, it tracks over the devices and it creates a pathway for electricity from the power line to the pole and you have a fire,” Clark said.

There are 140,000 power poles across the Austin area. Clark said there's no way to prepare or prevent these kinds of fires from happening.

Power was restored to everyone just before noon Friday.
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... because "a good washing off" does exactly the same thing... wets the dust... creates a conductor... fire sets on

[Wind]

People should be prepared and get more used to being without electricity. We are so dependant of it, especially in countries with cold weather.

[Calz]

No one really knows what will come.

Based on passed evidence from cycles gone by perhaps it would be best to avoid the coastlines and have some underground shelter.

No I don't mean spend a million bucks on a bunker ... find a nearby cave ... look at what the native americans have passed along.

[sdv]

One power company technician told a News 10 reporter near McGregor that the fires likely were caused by a build up of dust on transformers that shorted out due to low-lying fog.

Is this a case of a reporter passing on confused information? The sentence itself does not make sense. The fires were caused by a build up of dust on transformers? I live in Africa, which is very dusty is some parts, and I have never heard of a build up of dust on transformers causing fires, and I have never seen teams of workers constantly clearing dust off transformers. Maybe we have dust-proof transformers in Africa! Shorted out due to low-lying fog? Well, a lot of places in the world have low-lying fog (including parts of Africa) and why is this now causing a short?

Methinks this is an example of the spread of ignorance and stupidity so explanations become, well, more stupid! What kind of journalist repeats such nonsense without questioning it? Too many it seems!

[steveofengland]

Has anyone else noticed on spaceweather.com that the graphic they use to number the sunspots and the photo underneath of coronal holes do not match?
The photo shows more sunspots than the graphic above? While going on to say the sunspots that are officially numbered are quiet and there's nothing to see and all's peaceful up there.

[Wind]

No one really knows what will come.

Based on passed evidence from cycles gone by perhaps it would be best to avoid the coastlines and have some underground shelter.

No I don't mean spend a million bucks on a bunker ... find a nearby cave ... look at what the native americans have passed along.

Another Neanderthal cycle? I heard that Shambhala is a pretty nice place, hard to access though.