On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:33:15 +0000, wrote:

On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:25:44 +0000, Graham. wrote:


It's interesting to think what you should do in a scenario
where your car body is connected to high voltage.

You could jump out of the car so there's never a connection
through you between the car and ground.

Reading the Sheriff's report in this case, it seems that the
difference between life and death might be to take an educated guess
at the breaker re-closure sequence, and in particular, to try to
determine when it has given up retrying.

I would think that the number of people who even know what a
re-closure sequence is will be a very small percentage of the
population. Those who get their supply by an overhead network may
have wondered why the lights go off and then come back on again and
either stay on or extinguish again may have picked up the
reason,but my other half did not know and neither did our neighbour
when the subject came up once following a windy night. A lot of people
think it is just some operator switching supplies somewhere if they
actually think about it all. And even if somebody is aware in the
immediate aftermath of such an accident would they be in the right
frame of mind to remember such a thing .

G.Harman

What you say is indisputable for the general population, but those of
us in uk.diy after reading that report might make the right call if we
were unfortunate enough to be in that position.

I once saw a full sized supergrid pylon lying on its side by the
roadside from a coach window. This was in Israel after the worst rain
they had had for decades.

One poignant thing in that report reminds us that sometimes an
operator makes the decision to attempt to restore the power, and there
is the possibility that he could unwittingly become someone's
executioner.

--
Graham.
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