Arfa Daily wrote in message
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Sorry all. O.T. as a repair issue. Just something I read about today
that
I'm not sure I understand.

Anybody come across the term "step potential" or its effect in regard to a
downed live power line in contact with the ground ?

Arfa



Hollywood versions show the severed end of the cable, in intermittant
contact with the ground, snaking about like an unsupported hosepipe issuing
a water jet, - true, I don't know ?

The advice , if caught in a thunderstorm is to stand, or preferably crouch ,
with legs together, to avoid a ground distribution potential difference if
there is a nearby lightning strike. A direct hit, then likely a gonner, like
Cardiff boy last week.


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