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I've just been discussing a radio site with a 50m tower with the civil engineer on my team.

He has just returned from a site visit where the supplier is starting tower footings 9 metres from a energised 33KV overhead power line! He issued an immediate stop-work. The supplier is responsible for site selection, acquisition and all paperwork.

I'm trying to comprehend the sheer fuckwittery and lack of any intelligence from the supplier selecting this location.

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Alpena County Central Dispatch: There is an extreme ice emergency. If there is a down line in your yard that is not actively on fire or arcing stay away and contact your power company. Only call 911 if there is flames/arcing/smoke etc. Source: 202100,MI Alpena County Central Dispatch

Geek.

As I was going through my photos the other night, looking for the shot of the 765kv powerlines in Upstate New York, I stumbled across this photo. I had forgotten about it but once I saw it I remembered it.

Taken during COVID, when Earl and I were out for many drives in the Illinois countryside to the southwest of Chicago, I stood under this 345kv line. ComEd in Illinois seems to use what I call the “Cat Ears” towers, as the supports for the Earth Wire to assist with lightning control out on the prairie.

I was always a fan of the prairies to the west of busy Chicago. I found such beauty out in all that open space.

Especially if there were interesting powerlines marching across the cornfields here and there.

southern new hampshire
september 1959

linemen

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