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  • Dam, we need some amusement like this in our neighborhood... where does your town buy these transformers? I WANT ONE. ;-)

  • It's talking to you!!!!

  • fyi...911 and utility company first...not the fire department first :P

  • Get a BB gun, you'll be a hero!

  • no I you had a supersoaker you would be contukyfied chicken XD

  • OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHH!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!­!!

  • Bene Electric .com

  • 2:00 it becomes a dub step bass beat.

  • @pmgodfrey hahahhhhhh

  • @pmgodfrey the drop is at 5:15

  • Cletus is amused.

  • It's like totally dark there, no lights from surrounding houses. Is the power already off here in the neighborhood?

  • Actually,

    Short bursts with a garden hose from across the street might be interesting.

    Yeah, you plug the hose into the water faucet connected to your basement wash tubs. Run 100 feet of hose through your house to the window highest up and closest to the transformer. Make sure the hose has HOT WATER running through it and then send out short bursts (no more than 10 feet long) and then have a gap of at least 5 seconds or more. Keep doing this and eventually you'd blow the whole pole.

  • Folks,

    It's sending out morse code.

    Yeah, it's sending ..."Help Me, I'm melting!...

  • dude nothing wrong here its called a neighbor hood rave duh

  • There were no transformers involved here!! Everybody who knows little about power transmission blames transformers which very rarely if ever, explode!! The bright yellow-orange light is a result of the line arcing directly to the wood of the fallen tree branch. The fault went on and on because it was not a direct ground fault (limited current) or phase-to-phase fault, which would have tripped an upstream recloser.

  • @NathanH5 THANK YOU!!! Someone knows what's goin' on. lol.

  • lights out baby!!

  • if u had a super soaker? YOU DO NOT PUT WATER ONTO LIVE ELETRICAL WIRES AND TRANSFORMERS UNLESS YOU WANT TO DIE!!!

  • it sounds like a ticking time bomb haha

  • d e c C G.. it's d e c C G.

    You're never gonna establish Close Encounters of the Third Kind comms with the alien mothership if you just repeat the same note.

    Well that's what you get if you leave it to a power pole transformer to establish first conect.

  • WTF that guy walking nerby????

  • nice electrical grill and flash light with a nice buzzing noise

  • how's yer retinas?

  • @jen8933 Viewfinders/monitors can't produce light at an intensity that could damage a camera user's eyes.

    didn't yer know that?

    The lady who authoritatively suggested the very safe distance of "at least 50 feet", however, might be seeing things a couple lumens dimmer than the rest of us now...

  • @Rotard12a

    when you are filming you don't look continuously through the viewfinder. indeed i usually use the little screen.  so i did know that.

    i've worked around electical arcs and know that all precautions are a good idea.

    didn't yer know?

  • @jen8933 If that's you're angle, perhaps it would have been better to speak your thoughts on welding safety first? A comment featuring singular/plural mix-ups and improper vocabulary stereotypical of an uneducated person is more likely to insult than to inform.

    didja think 'bout that?

  • @Rotard12a

    ok now you've hurt my damn feelings.

  • hey cool vid you should check out the transformer explosion in fort worth TX on may 12 2011

  • great but scarry vid! I'm surprised that it didn't explode at the end. it just sputtered out. is this in Oklahoma? I lived in Florida and in 2004 we had a hurricane rip through our neighborhood. lost power for 10 days and it was during the summer! very very hot!

  • Those guys jogging around underneath it are unbelievable.

  • aw....I was hoping that it would have blown up at the end of the video.

  • Vuhhvuhhvuhhvuhhvuhhvuhhvuhh..­. Burglar Alert! Vuhhvuhhvuhhvuhhvuhhvuhhvuhh..­. LOL!

  • I remember this couple years ago, and in Rogers one of ours had exploded and it was going green,red,orange,yellow,and blue

  • Due to all these winter storms that I had, I hope we don't get a huge ice storm that causes something similer to this and that I lose power for weeks.

    That's what I'm fearing now.

    Believe me, ice storms are just worst then hurricanes and blizzards, because you lose power for weeks (due to the fact that there are lots of breakage of lines unlike thunderstorms and windstorms), trees blocking the road everywhere, you can't drive on the road due to ice, and the fact that you can't move ice.

  • its an arc!! no shit sherlock

  • More than likely the fire department does not shut off the power, but rather block off the area until the electric company arrives.

  • why didn't go stand beneath it for close-up

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  • 0:23... fuck no, dont call them!!! lol

  • If you had a super soaker, you'd be a dead hero.

  • i witnessed a transformer explosion when i was in high school i was waiting for the bus when the power lines buzzed and moved luckily the transformer was far away but still i could see it and boom! sounded like a bomb being dropped i heard that some drunk person hit the electric pole causing it to explode it was horrific

  • @johneato It might be a smart thing to also put this information in the description field in case any more people decide to critise your sarcasm. Lovely remark btw, the supersoaker thing.

  • one maybe there were making a movie ( LOL )

  • so thats is almost a electrical remix dance in the deep night... saddly it have almost none spactators or dancers to see....

    (and spet by step u are getting far away from that crazy thing xD.. clever)

  • @johneato

    A SUPER SOAKER?

    ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL YOUR SELF?

    PS: I read the thread, I just messing with you. Go ahead, piss on a spark-plug if you want.;-)

  • Boring!

  • Transformers make great oil lamps when they short out.

  • "Do you want that extra crispy or extra spicy?"

  • whats up with those idiots running back and forth right under the thing...its like theyre asking for stuff to fall on their heads.

  • WATCH OUT, IT'S A SPARTAN LASER SPOOLING

  • Actually, you can spray water at an electrical fire. A super soaker might not work out too well, but a wide angle fog insulates the current with the air in between the water molecules. Best bet is to wait until de-energized though.

  • finally i got something cool on video!

    Oh crap outta space hmmm well i guess this wedding video isnt important!

  • Techno rave!

  • "If I had a super soaker I could really be a hero" i would have really loved this video if you did that cause then you'd be burning with that pole. BAHAHA!

  • that was BORING

  • that is freaking cool!! *Favorites* wish that would happen near my house!

  • I love the Super Soaker thing. Probably a joke? :)

    I would just switch the electricity off, but that's just me and perhaps not as easy as I'd like to think...

  • Actually pretty amazing. I never knew a power surge would keep up like that. Pretty epic though for video. Wish I had that on video. Or even got to witness it first hand. Better than fireworks.

  • ITS THE ALIENS..THEY ARE SENDING MESSAGES TO THEIR HOMEWORLD TO INVADE EARTH

    lol jk

  • totally cool!

    i hope to capture one of these some day.

    did you ever wonder why the thing hummed so much?

    because it didn't know the words! :D

  • tripod

  • buzz...buzz...buzz...buzz...

  • hyuk hyuk /

  • Like a strobe light... No explosion though. Why were there people running back and forth across the street like 20 feet from it anyway?

  • "If i had a supersoaker, i could really be a hero." LMAO

  • Man no pop !!!

  • dude the same thing happend to me

  • Cool video of an electric arc, but mislabeled: this video does not involve a "transformer explosion". We just see some wires that arc for a while, then stop arcing when one of the wires melts. Transformer explosions look nothing like that. They're MUCH more frightening. Here's one: watch?v=fzbQjd_Oo4Q

  • @inventormaker Get your glow sticks, we're going out.

  • maybe call the energy company all the fire department is gonna do is watch is arc, and a super soaker is really a great idea

  • lol did you guys get the sonic boom? its so loud in rumbles the ground. its like the explosion of the bucket on the power line. that explosion up close is going to make your ears bleed o.o

  • V +1

  • Supersoaker, hah!! That should surely be an Honorary Mention for the Darwin Awards

  • @thegreatestoffools id say northwest Arkansas, we got shit loads of ice last january.

  • were was the video taken

  • lol "dude our fair city is wrecked" lol 1:16

  • if he had a supersoaker hed be electrocuted

  • "good god"

  • lol very true

  • "If I had a super soaker I could really be a hero"

    You could also really be dead.

  • I think he meant 'an hero'

  • @jaywalker512 I was just thinking that... lol water+electricity? how does that make him a hero..

  • dum is an electrical fire any water on that and u'll just kill your self

  • Fire Dept? what are they gonna do?

  • not a transformer explosion. Phases burning here,

  • well lets see i am a fire fighter we use dry powder extinguishers so you don't get shocked if you used water or a C.O-2 extinguisher you would get ur ass blown to shit???

  • is a bad idea call fire dept... very very bad idea

  • Why? do you thnk there gunna be unable to deal with electrical fires or something? No, your a fucking idiot.

  • ooh good god :08

  • hahaha 0;40 if i had a super soaker i could really b a hero

  • The Quiznos oven sounds pissed.

  • who was that retard running under it.

  • if you had a super soaker you would get zaped and will die dumbass

  • whats a super soaker? XD

  • a super soaker is a large toy gun that shoots water. very popular to play with during the summer season years ago.

  • If you had a supersoaker you'd act like a dumbass I think...

  • at 2:01 is like morse code, anyone know what it means?

  • Forget 911 call the power company.

  • no if u had a super soker u could die in a horrilble way  but slightly funny

  • 1:04 - Roadrunner got electrocuted! Now coyote can eat him.

  • Wish we had free arcs and bangs from power lines and poles in England - just put some water on it that will make sparks flyyyyyyyyyy- love the orange glow

  • awsome dude. i had a transformer that blow up near my house 3 times becuase and its loud. when it explodes.

  • a supersoaker? are you insane? your arm will be blown off XD

  • oh, good god, wow

  • watch 3:04 you see someone walking underneath the electrical wires probably te stupiest idea ever!

  • lol new air horn consept XD

  • Dang, I was hoping for a big band at the end!

  • "If I had a super soaker I could really be a hero"

    LOL More like a Crispy Critter you moron! Don't shoot water at high voltage, or didn't you learn that in your years of grade 5?

  • sarcasm is my specialty.

  • @nuru666 In the words of Homer Simpson, "MMMMM.... Crisssppppyyy......"

  • Classic! Thanks.

  • Somebody call 911!

  • Freaking cool! Hope all you guys in NW AR finally have your power back on. Amazingly, we only got a little bit of ice here in Ft. Smith. We were so lucky.

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