Not something you see everyday. Evidently this image has gone a bit viral, but this is a friend of mines house. She hit me up wondering if I knew what might cause it. The flex was pulling about 175 amps and was at 1200 degrees. There's to be a whole news story on it and everything.

Mother of god, dare I say this post..... blew up. There are a lot of questions and there is no way I can get to everyone. Basically, during a storm a tree fell on the incoming lines and it caused some fucked up high voltage things and created a new ground.

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[–] dat_math@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I see, so less many US house's capacities in total current leakage? This post makes me so grateful I don't have a gas connection in my building

edit: was that total current leaked in the whole neighborhood or just the one house?

[–] spectre@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

From the post it implies that 175A was going into the house (but bypassing the meter so it couldn't be caught there)

So yeah it would be like ~+1 maxed out house running like 10 space heaters