"George E. Cawthon" wrote in message
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Dan Hartung wrote:

Lost-In-Translation wrote:
Don't discount the power company either. We found, in our area, that
we
were experiencing "meter jumping" which was power surges that made the
meters spin like a whirling dervish for a few seconds!! Sure, it made
for
some higher power bills too.

Come to find out, the power company will "surge" the lines as those
quick
surges will help burn off small branches that may be laying across
wires.
It's a dirty trick, but they do it.

Sounds like an urban legend to me. Power surges will stress the line
itself; at the right level it will heat up and stretch. A stretched
power line is more dangerous.

I don't think it is a legend, that means several people believe it and
nobody that knows anything about utilities would believe this. Any
power company that did this would quickly go out of business from
lawsuits.

Its complete and utter nonsense--the first clue is to consider what kind of
switchgear would need to be intalled on the utilities lines in order to
accomplish such a thing......

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SVL