Yeah, downed power lines are /dangerous/. Not just because they carry many many joules of pain, but because of the recloser system that runs the power grid.
Theorhetically, it could have broken the cable, such that the live side was still on the next power, and thus the downstream unenergized cable thuds to the ground. Except, in that section, a device called a recloser, which joins multiple segments of the network together, will realise there is no power in one section, and re-energize it several seconds later from another feeder trunk, making *both* sides of the power line live.
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Theorhetically, it could have broken the cable, such that the live side was still on the next power, and thus the downstream unenergized cable thuds to the ground. Except, in that section, a device called a recloser, which joins multiple segments of the network together, will realise there is no power in one section, and re-energize it several seconds later from another feeder trunk, making *both* sides of the power line live.
Mmm unexpectedly dangerous.
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Huh.
I am now obscurely glad that it is all a fairly long way away :)
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Hooray for underground power...
Glad you weren't hurt. That would have been incredibly horrible; one stay in ICU is enough for anyone!
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