I was tracking an outage in my early days after a nasty thunderstorm. I started upthe pole to check an amp when the guy with me statred yellin get off the pole. He was 2 spans down and looking in the trees and saw a primary laying right across our stuff. I 3 stepped down and about a minute later as he was showing me why he was doin all that yelling the wind kicked up and damned if the primary wasn't live. Spark show from hell. Had utmost respect from then on. For power and the guy with me that is.
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