I’d love to hear if he says the failure was due to the design, environmental factors, or a combination. I grew up with these high tension lines behind my house in the Midwest, and even though the crackling sound could sound scary as a kid, I never thought about them falling down 😬
He says given the location of the buckling that there may have already been a problem with the structure… OR the lines started galloping and made it buckle. He says 75mph winds shouldn’t have been bad enough…
Also says the dead end up line there did its job and prevented further collapse.
He did say if they’d taken high enough winds into account it shouldn’t have failed, he also says that it’s unusual that the insulators didn’t fail first (those are usually a weak point). Also if the lines were galloping the torque could have done it in. 🤷🏻♀️
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Also says the dead end up line there did its job and prevented further collapse.
He did say if they’d taken high enough winds into account it shouldn’t have failed, he also says that it’s unusual that the insulators didn’t fail first (those are usually a weak point). Also if the lines were galloping the torque could have done it in. 🤷🏻♀️
Just having some fun spitballing.
He also said, “never discount lack of maintenance” oh BOY do we have stories. 🤣🤣🤣