Oh Lord, Here comes Jeanne!!!

“Yep, Coop.
The black is probably soot from the Arresters fuse. The Arresters are mounted to the transformers sometimes.
The red may be the oil inside leaking if the Arrester didn't do it's job..”

“LMAO COOP!”

“Simple view of a power pole and transformer
Figure 2 is not quite correct as the lead from the high voltage line on top goes into the arrester and then into the transformer.”

“I don't know how many times the spokespeople for power companies have tried to explain why transformers don't blow up, but Stovie's explanation is the first that makes it clear to me. I may print it out and file it.”

“No #&%!$ Sherlock on that story.”

“Ok , I'll accept that but I've seen five explode, crack their cases, spill fluid and catch fire in the time I've lived in
Florida.

Seriously, somewhere I have photos.”

“Well I am back home for a few hours. No major damage to my home. I am missing some metal flashing on the east side, my shed is missing siding on the west side and 2 medium sized trees are down and of course NO POWER! But I won't be here long so I'm not even going to hook up my generator!

Moab is sounding good right now!!!

Loved your insight Coop! And soooooo true too.

Thanks Stove, good and simple explanation.

How is your house Treebait? I hope all is well.”

“What do ya do Tango, restring wires or work at the power plant?”

“Cool site gives the history and track info on each storm that we've had so far this year.”

“Geo, work at the power plant.”

“We had Frances hit three weeks ago, fortunately it hadn't rained much in Western WV for awhile so the ground soaked most of it up. Then the week after Ivan decided to drop a ton of rain on us. This time the ground couldn't soak it all up. I spent last Friday cleaning up my camper that had 5ft. of water in it. The river was more than double it's normal depth. Talk about a mess! It looks like Jeanne is hitting Eastern WV this time and leaving us alone. Good Luck to those who haven't been so lucky.”

“this dumb hurricane is dumping all it's water in my town and flood it out everywhere! i drove home in a god-amn river. apparently i shorted out a ground with all the water. grrrr.”

“Like treebait,
LMAO @ Coop.”

“glad to hear from ya NS!”

“The devastation on the Treasure Coast is fairly dramatic. Today's paper had a pretty full report of Indian River, St Lucie and Martin counties. The county EOC director said the recovery/rebuilding will take years, yeah, years. There are very few buildings that aren't wet on the inside and our barrier islands just almost became reefs in places. A1A is pretty much gone in a lot of places as is the Indian River Drive, on the mainland side of the intercoastal.

Here's a link to the website for the paper. (No subscription required)”

“Glad you made it OK, Roam Around.”

“Hey, Tango, glad to hear you're okay. Ever hear of Red's Meadow pack station and campground by Devil's Postpile in the Eastern Sierra? It's for sale.......... Just wanted to let you know.”

“Thanks WBP! I will check it out!

I am so glad every one is cool!”

“for St. Lucie County:

Division of Forestry:
• Distributed to date: Water - 31 ¼ truckloads (156,250 gallons), Ice - 27 ¾ truckloads (1,110,000 pounds), MREs - 10 truckloads (218,888 meals). Vehicles helped: 32,119.”

“I've received 22 MRE's so far(from Frances). I've eaten a few and they've been good. And I've received free ice for two days. Real nice to have ice water to drink. My power was restored around noon today.”

“Good for you, NS. My grandparents in Sebring still don't have power. My cousin who lives closer to Sarasota had her roof ripped off, but amazingly all their belongings including most electronics are okay, as is her entire family.”

“Glad you, HPM and Laurel are OK. I just had some wood replaced along the sides an A/C. Still have a few things to do, but I'm finally in a packing mode and have already started.

Looked at that string about how sweet it is in the Smokies. I've paid the bills for the next three months and should be headed north soon. Finally, happy days are here again.”