Explosion outside my window

[MichaelJE2]

I love the dripping molten metal

[grangersmith]

That's not right, never seen a transformer do that, that was more like a EMF explosion not just a transformer, how is that explained..It was more of a plasma ball pulsating, on and off until it exploded the transformer...This just doesn't make any scientific sense to me, but what do I know? Why didn't your camera, and all the electricity go out while this was pulsing greatly? Where is this from what area did you live?

[base10design]

@grangersmith I have no idea what's going on in the video.. some people claim its the oil used to cool the transformer or something. This is from North Vancouver, BC. Canada.

[gokul5029]

Looks like the transformer is committing suicide, lulz

[Auzeras]

And just like a firework, after all the sparks and fire is over, there is a sad puff of smoke

[Erykex]

chuck norris was using threadmill

[Backtracer101]

The responsible thing to do would be to stop filming and go pour some water on it to put it out before someone gets hurt

[pvtread]

@Backtracer101 lol, water and electricity dont get along, pluss hed be fried when he got near it.

[base10design]

@Backtracer101 Totally, I'm gonna leave my house with a cup of water and approach the exploding transformer. Thank you for your suggestion.

[NashvilleKildCountry]

I hope your eyes weren't flash burned after watching that for as long as you did. That's UV rays and maybe some weak X-rays hitting your eyes.

[base10design]

@NashvilleKildCountry I hope not :(

[robertgift]

@NashvilleKildCountry Backtracer was just joking. No one would be that stupid.

Fortunately, one is far enough away thathe UV is greatly diminished. Doubling the distance drops the intensity 4 times. Same with X-rays.

[robertgift]

Nice catch!

Brace your camera on the widow sill to keep it steady.

Surprised that circuit breakers did not open earlier.

Apparently they eventually did open and then reset causing the second episode.

Thanks for explaining the cause. When? Where?

Did you call the fire department?

[base10design]

@robertgift I did call the fire dept, so did a few others on the street. This is in North Vancouver, BC. The cause was due to a fallen tree hitting the transformer. The tree fell in a windstorm we were having that day.

[Suzuhira1987]

2:00 it blasts even light for a sec there o.o;;

[coolbluelights]

wow even though the video quality isn't the best this is amazing newsworthy footage! amazing that you caught this! just incredible!

[base10design]

@coolbluelights thank you, you know what's funny? I called our local news and showed them this video and they said they're not interested

[coolbluelights]

@base10design then they suck lol people love to see explosions!

[PetrifEye]

@coolbluelights

I'm surprised the camera was still running. I was driving in a storm one time and a transformer exploded across the street from me and my car shut off. I guess these things send out EMP like nuke bombs or something because when it exploded, everything in my car turned off. Lights radio, etc. The car itself shut off as well.

[Gentalor]

Well, here in Germany we have our power lines underground, like any other industialized country, thats kinda 3. world to have poles and transformers all over, in case of an Eartquake you cant use the streets anymore, they fall and kill people, or explode, this is a major fail for the U.S. among Healthcare and many other things ! sad...

[coolbluelights]

@Gentalor The U.S. is a big country, it would cost billions if not trillions of dollars to upgrade our electrical grid. most newer neighborhoods have underground service though. but yes during storms it can be very dangerous if the lines come down.

[Gentalor]

@coolbluelights Yeah well, thats not an excuse if you claim you are the best country in the world... But yeah i am not here to judge, i hope Edison will do it soon, probably wont , just look at the history of this company, stole everything from Tesla, unfair 5 Tier payment plans etc etc... Free Market fail

[chunk1978]

holy shit. 0:50 and 1:01 were like nuclear.

[Kaltoftman]

Look like the things I do on my desk :D

[DragonUltraMaster]

Awesome :p

[benfresh99]

love this shit

[dannyday58218195]

we dont seem to have these transformer things in the UK - which i know is probably rubbish - perhaps they just look different to the ones in US

all i ever see are cables and powerlines not actual boxes like these

[AlmostCommon]

In my city the power companies purchase properties to store their transformers. The grid ties into the transformer houses and distribute power to customers from there. Maybe the transformers are like this in the UK?

[ratbag359]

@dannyday58218195 from what i have seem it seems the the us uses allot of smaller transformers. here in new zealand we use large transformers that can supply 250000 watts to 500000 watts written as 250KVA or 500KVA. out of the towns/citys we use the same method as the us just small pole mounted transformers rated from 2KVA to 11kva. also in most places around populated areas equipment is under ground. only high voltage 100'000 volt lines are above ground but the keep them far away from people

[urooj101]

thanks for uploading

[trancebeliever]

thats phoenix, the ressurection

[ptschafer]

Thanks for recording and posting this! It usually doesn't take that long for a transformer to blow from an arc like this, but apparently there was just enough (or not enough, I should say) resistence to keep it intact long enough for a great show.

[PhonePrankster]

Tree 1, Power Line Zip.

[KrazyKali69]

nice video, i have one myself i caught on tape, check my very first video!

[yozgatlilar3866]

Uhhm?

[musubi69]

woooooooooooooooooow

[Lisat34]

I was around during the US heartland ice storm 2009. Transformers blew up everywhere just like that one. Except there were hundreds of them blowing up. We were left without a home for 3 weeks! :(

[igykalen]

Man those things are deathtraps.

[74AC240PC]

Something must be wrong with that thing. It should have shut itself off the second the tree shorted it out. But, it didn't, and you got some cool footage!

[Onepasion]

Wow Heavy!!

[nicolasfer10]

oO nice man

[huskerfreak1995]

wow....last explosion is awesome!

[EaglemanX3Gorilla]

an electrical fire on a power pole. I seen one of those on the same block where I live. very dangerous, a power line snaped and it was bouncing around like a snake. best thing to to is stay inside or get away.

[Malkavoru]

obv thats a thetan evolving into its final form

[bowlchamp411]

whoooooooooooo yeah

[blyid1]

AWESOME !!!!!!!!!!!

[stranac1]

this is UFO

[propyropower]

thats cool +5

[yoohoodrinker123]

i'd still climb that pole

[Jumpinjahosafa]

And let natural selection do its job.

[Strikerklm96]

That is a transformer committing suicide, or am I wrong?

[LordXamot]

Those last few explosions were amazing!

Congrats on having your cellphone out at the time.

[cubano0306]

nice show you got outside your window bro

[djmorgan27]

turn your lights off in your room and have a disco since this thing is kicking out some right colours lol good vid!

[Antiinequity]

woooooow

That's so bad

they had to remove the trees from the pwoer line

most accidents happened from trees

so i hope you're ok

nice video

thanks brother

[Jacal65]

Holy shit

[shadowray95]

random colurs

[kyle2727007]

pretty colors

[garabella815]

wow

[Mp3Man1243]

Thats a nice house... I'd like to live there someday.

[Mp3Man1243]

THAT WAS AN EXPLOSION!??!??!???????

[DriveTech24]

All the PCBs raining down...

[poweredbyibm]

Que lindo espectaculo...

Gracias

[Neonkovala]

dude my friend today fucking destroyed a power line up town by hanging on the wire next to it and it had everything there cops ambulence turns out the pole that he destroyed was to a nursing home

[SkyNinja1]

This is nothing. A power plant near me exploded. My friend who lives even closer, it riped the front of his house away.

[igykalen]

pics or it didn't happen.

[SkyNinja1]

It happened in the middle of the night. As for the house, I have no idea if it's even recorded anywhere but the repairs. Believe me or not, it happened.

[LadyFang20]

HOLY SHIT! What caused it? O.O

[Xenoxander]

I feel sorry for the cat that started that lol.

[EagleTalons1]

or the coon. lol

[Zilege]

Or a squirrel. ^.^

[tenebraebr]

It's really odd... there should be some control system attached to the transformer... or at least somewhere in the vicinity. Hight currents should trigger a switch or something...

[optimusXmeXD]

JUST BLOW UP ALREADY!!!X3

[MissTwinx]

wow. that's intense.

[WeirdGirlCyndi]

Wow!

[REWYRED]

" having substations instread of great big ugly transformers up poles"?????? Sorry you still need a transformer somewhere near the loads you are supplying... maybe not up a pole but "pad mounted" for underground supply, and them power boxes you see around are NOT substations. they ARE transformers or switchgear.

[highfidelity2k7]

i havent ever heard of that happening in the UK before, probabily because our grid engineers had the SMART idea of having substations instead of great ugly transformers up poles but still it looks pretty cool lol

[FireRescueProduction]

hey buddy we have sub stations in america in fact i have 3 or four in a 2 square mile radius supplying electricity to over 50,000 grids. those transformers are to limit the voltage of electricity going into the homes for not only the customer safety but to keep the energy bill down (500+ volts going into a house instead of the standard 240 volts equals a lot bigger bill)

[gertie83]

EQUALS bullcrap.... The higher the voltage the less you loose inside cables. Anyway, your bill doesn´t depend on how much voltage you get into your house. Its about how much Watt/s or (KWH) you use. And because

"Power (Watt) = Current (Ampere) * Voltage (Volt)" you will only need less Ampere if the voltage increases, but the Watts will stay the same! The only problem is that most stuff is made for a certain Voltage range, if you go over it, you blow your equipment..

Got it? :p

[Malidsol]

TREE'S > YOUR FKING UK POWERLINES!!!!

[MecTec082]

(O)_(O)

[FionaTheFox]

Whoa!!!

[Derykey]

umm i blew two times to get out power

[SpiritsoftheWolf]

Never look directly at any high voltage line arcing, the arc produces a HIGHLY immense UV Rays which can damage your eyes. Just like looking at someone welding. Ultraviolet Radiation burns the eyes

[frosty956]

actually this appears to be from behind a window and glass and most plastics block UV

[SpiritsoftheWolf]

a clear and plain or plastic window DOES NOT blocks UV radiation.

[soylentgreenb]

Regular glass blocks over 90% at <300nm, so most of that UV-B and UV-C is gone, much of the UV-A goes straight through.

It's almost impossible to get a sun-burn behind glass.

[mangeese]

Yeah!! i have seen one of these explode but there was a really massive Blue globe of electrical fire that bursted out ward and from about 100 feet away i felt the heat! And it was intensely Bright.!

[yourmofo]

Had one blow a block from me. It was buzzing extremly loud, and when it blew, a big fireball let out. Sucked it happened around 4am, but was cool to watch.

[hypergurl121212]

OMFG THAT WAS FREAKIN AWESOME!!

[C20rules]

That was really cool

[C20rules]

That was really cool

[UnboundVolts]

No more electricity for you for a while :p

that was funny

[Trendkillertrendy]

Wow dude that was fucking cool!

[batterbee2000]

awesome that sounded loud.

[killer1479]

sweet video dude

thnx for sharing

[Superbeast1370]

watching this reminds me of a supernova

[hitechguy18]

You can see the 2x EMP pulses effect the camera

Picture blacks out

[Jangle2007]

I wonder whether the camera picture blacking out couldn't be related to the brilliance of the arc flash temporarily telling the camera's light meter that there is a lot more light, and therefore the camera's auto-exposure system stops-down the aperature to darken the video.

But the EMP pulse is an interesting theory as well.

[7089540230]

great video!

[200twistatwista]

Is dat your truck u should go out there and move it wouldn't want that power line to fall on it lol.

[Beast96Z]

Why it didn't go out is sometimes a mystery, but most of the time, the line is fused to heavy or it's on the hard circuit straight from the substation. It looks as if the fuse blew after the last explosion. Definatly a nice catch!

[Tabris005]

similar thing happened by me when a car crashed into a tree, only there was a loud bang and three more transformers on my block blew afterword.

[base10design]

thank you :) no problemo

[Cadakus]

sweet...

[YoukaiLaurana]

Great video, mate!

[phillyfan369]

looks cool but wouldnt like to be near one...

[bradmann85]

i wouldnt wanna be near one eather unless you wanna a hot shower. lol

[phillyfan369]

lol

[justin19822]

i felt sorry for the damn thing the way it blew it self out like that

[theunknown411]

wow...that fault should've cleared once the thing started

[hunteroftheodd]

somthing simmilar happened to me, accept it caught my balcony on fire.

[chatmic]

fireworks today? why not... take care .... it's smell burnout here

[nitusbh]

wow an ufo

[elpresley]

It would be more witty to put the lines underground.

[ct92404]

I've seen high voltage lines arcing during strong winds...and that's scary. It looks like lightning flashing in the sky. But I've never seen a transformer short out and blow up! That's probably a distribution transformer, and they're filled with oil for insulation and cooling. Some of the bright orange flashes may be the oil catching on fire!

[base10design]

oh wow, awesome! lol

[jibba24474]

wow scarey

[arroy624]

i expect some alien to walk out from the explosion like halflife ;)

[supra3point0]

we had a transformer blow at a distance during hurricane rita. we were at the hopspital where she worked, and a transformer went down about 1/5 of a mile away. it was glowing blue green and a reddish purple like that against the clouds. all i could think of was the heat ray on the tripods from speilburgs war of the worlds. it was creepy as hell.

[mikested]

I liked the part at 49 sec

[nuisancebeggar]

pole pig pwnage!! bwaaaahahahahaha!

[KamaSutra]

I've never seen a transformer go for so long... I mean, I've seen them explode but I NEVER had time to grab a camera before it was over. Wow! : )

[AmazingSnipe]

Id shit myself if that house was mine right next to the transformer :S

[dspeak2]

LOL.. I would not want to be looking at that with my naked eye. The ultraviolet light radiation could cause permanent damage to your vision.

[metalmaniacemg]

wow !

[Cchrisbud813]

Wow! That would have scared me. Were you scared or excited?

[base10design]

well, I was sitting on my computer playing counter strike and it was insanely windy outside.. so as soon as I look outside my window I see this huge tree at the end of my alley just SNAP and hit the top of the powerlines.. 2 seconds goes by and BOOM BOOM BOOM 3 huge explosions and the power goes out.. so I grabbed my cellphone and started recording. At first I was just like holy shit, then I was more intrigued than anything.

[bigclivedotcom]

I love the scream when it goes nuclear.

[xXxmidgexXx]

what caused the explosion?

[base10design]

the transformer wasnt that big at all to be honest. A tree had blown over from the wind and hit the top.. got stuck.. caught on fire

[xXxmidgexXx]

it might have shorterd thouhg.>_< thats scary!

[EdvardLewis]

nice.. I pray there is no wind in oslo now, since it's my job to go and fix it if this happends here in christmastime.. :/

[base10design]

yeah definately, this was in north vancouver BC, Canada. Wierd for this kinda stuff to happen around here.. guess we can thank global warming

[xXxmidgexXx]

oh yeah as least how big was the transformer

[BenHutchinson1]

Neat Video!

[base10design]

watch what happens around 50 seconds in

[WormInfestedSoldier]

that sound is creepy aint it

[chriscrabber]

the light got brighter?