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November 30, 2011 Los Angeles Wind Storm: Power Line Transformers Arcing Across Night Sky

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Uploaded by on Dec 1, 2011

On November 30, 2011, strong winds of up to 70mph swept across the Los Angeles area, knocking out power to over 250,000 residents. This video shows power line transformers arcing across the horizon, lighting up the night sky.

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  • It's not just the transformers, it's power lines contacting each other or trees or other things that ground them out.

  • FUCIK YOU

    

  • wow

  • How was Disneyland affected?

  • I live near Temecula and we had strong winds but nothing like you guys saw. And I am glad too. We have too much brush out here from all the rains and a windstorm like that would have set our entire area ablaze. Sorry for all the damage you guys got..

  • @envisionelec LOL thats okay. i am pretty ignorant when it comes to the energy discharged when it comes to natural disasters...however, i dont understand why there is such an increase.. some try to say its always been this way but cant come up with statistics to back it up. i mean as far of earthquakes, there has been a 600% increase. well thats what the paper said. just looking for a explanation. maybe not aliens. but HARRP is said to be a weapon. IDK! lol

  • @swlovesvegans Of course there are events like that during earthquakes. Any time you disturb an electrical device violently (such as an earthquake), there is a chance for a short circuit or insulation breakdowns. An act as simple as dropping a very high voltage line on a "low voltage" line will cause the upstream transformer to "break down" - that is to say it will conduct through its normally-insulating material and cause an immense amount of energy to be discharged.

  • @swlovesvegans I was kidding. Sorry.

  • @envisionelec i honestly believe you.. there was lights like that during the earthquake in Japan and haiti. HARRP

  • Craziest night ever...and those flashes were everywhere.

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