POW!
2 PM
Apparently a circuit breaker popped on a power pole.
I logged out without clicking my mouse.
First of many this summer?
Only down for an hour...not bad.
My computer has a UPS, but not the router.

I wonder what it sounds like if a circuit breaker that size pops where all the utility wires are buried.
Do they even use that kind of circuit breaker for underground utilities?

I can't tell you about underground but as to above ground we have Two 3 phase lines coming down our street. The upper is 25 KV and the lower is 13.3 KV with the 13.3 KV feeding the residential transformers. We had a run last year of squirrels getting across the 13.3 KV where it entered one transformer. I have no clue what made them suicidal at that transformer? Always the same one and once a week for a month. The fuse has a disconnect and the disconnect uses an explosive charge to make sure it opens. When that sucker would pop it was like standing forward of a 12 gauge shotgun. That was exactly what it went off like, a 12 gauge shotgun 3" high brass load! Scare the hell out of you. That transformer fed right up to our neighbors beside and across the street, we were or are on the next transformer up the road.

Ron

 

POW!
2 PM
Apparently a circuit breaker popped on a power pole.
I logged out without clicking my mouse.
First of many this summer?
Only down for an hour...not bad.
My computer has a UPS, but not the router.

I wonder what it sounds like if a circuit breaker that size pops where all the utility wires are buried.
Do they even use that kind of circuit breaker for underground utilities?

It was likely the fuse you heard go off, like Reloadron said. As far as the underground, the same types are fuses are in place at the point where the overhead jumps to the "pothead" and goes underground. It just isn't located directly in front of your house because normally the point where in goes underground is not nearby. Now underground padmount transformers (like the ones that feed houses in underground subdivisions) do have built in fuses and sometimes switches, in most cases. Those fuses are all located at or near the connections to the padmount transformer.

 

the disconnect uses an explosive charge to make sure it opens. When that sucker would pop it was like standing forward of a 12 gauge shotgun.

OMG! Explosives! Call Homeland Security! Call NSA! Call CIA! Call TSA! Terror Threat Crisis!
Power Company Executives Jailed for Treason!

This has been the morning headlines. You may now resume ignoring your television.

 

OMG! Explosives! Call Homeland Security! Call NSA! Call CIA! Call TSA! Terror Threat Crisis!
Power Company Executives Jailed for Treason!

This has been the morning headlines. You may now resume ignoring your television.

Hey, I happen to like things that go bang. Time to hand load more ammo.

Ron

 

No fun in the covered outdoor room today. 101 is the official 4PM temp today.

 

101 in OR? Wow. I have lots of family in the Salem, McMinnville areas. Never saw that.. and 117 in the room.. Geeze

Been hot here in Dallas last few days but then, its always so this time of year. Unfair in Oregon.

 

Today was nice in the low 80s with plenty of sunshine. Yesterday was toasty in the low 90s with high humidity. So here we sit on a big lake called Erie. My wife is considering her annual trip to Phoenix around October or November and I am thinking Aruba is nice in January.

Ron

 

It's been raining like pouring water out of a boot for about 2 weeks.
Can't replace a rotten fence post because the water table is the surface of the ground.
Well, it goes down the the surface a few minutes after the rain stops.
Then the sod drains for...I can't tell. It hasn't stopped draining for weeks.
The rain always starts again before the gutters in the street are dry.

Oh well. Good excuse to not dig a post hole in July.
Please pass the lemonade.

 

101 in OR? Wow. I have lots of family in the Salem, McMinnville areas. Never saw that.. and 117 in the room.. Geeze

102 McMinnville, 103 now in Salem and Portland, 108 in Corvallis and Roseburg, all between two mountain ranges in the valley. Unreal heat for this part of the country.

 

one oh freakin' eight? Zowie. You may need to come to TX to cool off!
What's that doing to the wine in Willamette valley I wonder.

 

Hot hot hot!

 

one oh freakin' eight? Zowie. You may need to come to TX to cool off!
What's that doing to the wine in Willamette valley I wonder.

I was born near Waco so no thanks, this heat will last a week not months.

The grapes (and my garden tomatoes) are loving it.
http://koin.com/2015/06/26/hot-sunny-weather-good-for-wine-grapes/

 

You just need to move to the coast.

 

Ten hours after the rain stopped, the back yard is still reflections in the water between blades of grass.
Apparently the sand is saturated all the way to the (nearly) impermeable layer at seven feet down.
The Weather Guessers predict this will stop after another 5 days.
Of course, in five days, the prediction might change.

 

Ten hours after the rain stopped, the back yard is still reflections in the water between blades of grass.
Apparently the sand is saturated all the way to the (nearly) impermeable layer at seven feet down.
The Weather Guessers predict this will stop after another 5 days.
Of course, in five days, the prediction might change.

Sounds like in five days you'll be drowned.

 

No. I'm too close to the ocean. The water just runs into the sea when it gets above sod level.
Meanwhile, I can't drive back to the shed to (un)load the van or I'll leave ruts up to the hubcaps.

Edit, 3:30 pm:
What? Dry concrete? The sun? Ow, my eyes! Haven't seen full sun for weeks!
Pretty green algae growing in the gutters as the sod continues to drain.
Another week of this and things will be back to normal, which is temperatures in the 90's and humidity to match.
Looking forward to winter, as I do every year.

 

Kind of outdated (Aug 2nd) but very impressive:

http://time.com/3981478/iran-heatwave-bandar-mahsahr/

The heat index in Bandar Mahshahr, a city of over 100,000 atop the Persian Gulf, reached an astonishing 164 degrees (73 Celsius) on Friday afternoon

 

No. I'm too close to the ocean. The water just runs into the sea when it gets above sod level.
Meanwhile, I can't drive back to the shed to (un)load the van or I'll leave ruts up to the hubcaps.

Edit, 3:30 pm:
What? Dry concrete? The sun? Ow, my eyes! Haven't seen full sun for weeks!
Pretty green algae growing in the gutters as the sod continues to drain.
Another week of this and things will be back to normal, which is temperatures in the 90's and humidity to match.
Looking forward to winter, as I do every year.

Have you noticed any rise in sea level?

 

Have you noticed any rise in sea level?

I've been noticing an increase in people's sensibilities as the weather warms up... seriously dude, this sort of heat gets anyone in a bad mood....

The heat was killing me! ​

 

You should all take a trip to VT (provided you don't mind a little bit of rain):