>why was my power out for a day>check the newsFUCKING TRUGGERS
>>29030609>gets internet back>makes a thread like thisyou're internet should've stayed out longer.
Indian tier infrastructureLets blame the trucker
>>29030615>is it the trugger's fault for not doing the required route checks to see if there are obstacles in the way?>no, it's everyone else's fault :/
>>29030609If I was walking down the street and saw this Id be blowing out my fucking sides from laughter.
why are american powerlines so low
>>29030620>If I was walking down the street and saw this Id be blowing *bzzzzzzzzzzt-ACK*FTFY
>>29030617>route checks to see if there are obstacles in the way?there's no signage indicating reduced clearance. i'm not a trucker, but i believe the assumption is like 16'.
>>29030609Why were the powerlines so low? Your government should invest in infrastructure
>>29030617>obstaclesIn what developed part of the world are power lines considered potential obstacles for a slightly higher than average load?
>>29030620I like to think I’d laugh then run in and try to help anyone.After a moment of introspection. I know I would be screaming and running away like a madman.
>next to the 2026 timestamp>they say with a straight face that it's a first world country
this is really embarrassing. it's just some podunk town in new jersey but it's a huge infrastructure failure like you'd find in some third world country.
>>29030622My bigger concern would be why is there so many of them and why are they all tangled like spaghetti.
>>29030609Trucker did nothing wrong power infrastructure sucks.If anyone had gotten killed city would be to blame.What was the puff of smoke near the carried machinery after it happened?
>>29030784probably electrical arcing from shorting out
This is what happens when your trucking industry is run by illegal Mexicans who don't do proper route checks
>>29030609>>29030615>>29030673WTF?! Why?
>>29030609little off topic but from an electricians POV that crew kicked ass getting power back on so quickly.
>>29030871>>29030617>shitposting redditors actually think a route check will include "the power lines are lower here than usual for no real reason" because they NEED to be able to post their canned shitposts about trucks
>>29030609That looks like it snagged by just a few inches, too.
>>29030617>>29030622>The semi truck cleared the street lights Past ~6 - 8 days has been heatwaves across the USA combined with added electrical load causes the wires to thermally expand. If the wire was initially installed low hanging it would be marked with a warning sign roadside. Means the wires were sagging too low. Power pole further up the road is leaning which indicates the power company has neglected maintenance of the stretch anyway. Basically power company's fault and if not this year then it would have been a problem in the near future.
>>29030609From which thirdie shithole is this from?
>Living in South Jersey
>>29033280Theres only one country with grass that green and gas that cheap
>>29033310Kazakhstan?
>>29030609poo jeet, calling it now
>>29030609That's definitely over 13' 6" so trucker fucked up.The load is secured well, though.
>>29030622The ones where I live are all buried underground because I'd rather pay taxes and have working infrastructure, but suburbtards will be suburban and will literally shoot their own dick off rather than give one penny to the government because their twitter algorithm said the money will go to the blacks and that is utterly intolerable
>>29030609In populated areas we bury power cables. There are fewer idiots digging holes than driving on the street.
>>29033387All the suburbs in CA have been underground power for like 30 years. Suburbs and bumpkinville are not synonymous.
>>29033387>the money will go to the blacks and that is utterly intolerablethis but unironically.
FWIW, the lowest lines are telecommunications with power lines being at the top of the pole so the truck snagged a phone/internet cable which then drug down the poles. Power lines sagging much and they'll be out there pinche-quick but the TC guys, well, they might be detailed to a line downed by a tree sometime before the heat death of the universe if the line is still operational. Maybe. See it all the time around here. Tree trunks leaning on TC lines for literal years, TC lines sagging so much they touch the ground at the mid point. Hell, there's one where the stay on the pole broke and the line fell to the ground and all you get when you call it in is "We are Aware..." pablum. There were reasons that AT&T was a monopoly.
>>29033270Please stop making excuses for truckfaggs . Canopener bridge >Dozens of advance warning signs >Truck-Specific GPS Navigation>Laser-Activated Warning SystemsEven with all that , truckfaggs constantly crash into fucking bridge .
>>29033678>Box truckA box truck is only there to make everything worse.
>>29030609Many contributing factors involved here:1. This is an Edge-case load. The height is not adjustable2. No signage3. Truck Driver appears oblivious to the height challenge4. SHITHOLE Infrastructure.Get mad, people.We have the worst Infrastructure and Service in the 1st world.Single Phase 110v (split-phase) garbage
>>29030609Why are power lines hanging so low across the road
>>29033387my suburbs have literally ZERO overhead linesevery suburb I've visited in the passed 15 years have had underground linesThe only time I see overhead lines are the subrural outskirts that are perpetually stuck in the 1980s; get mad at boomers and redneck adjacentsalso, my tax dollars ABSOLUTELY get funneled to subretardtion-IQ blacks and brownsstay mad nerd
>>29033763America is a poor country and can't afford to bury it's power lines, nor can they afford taller poles, please consider the feelings of the 3rd world when posting.
>>29033700>>29033678>>29030615most truckers are double digit IQ. I mean is it really there fault for being so stupid?
>>29033757>>29033778I don't think about you at all>>29030609kek what a retard. Ban idiots in trucks from pulling shit please
>>29033846>comparing Wages between countries without also evaluating the relative Costs of LivingAn absolute brainlet.
>>29030609I'd be more concerned about living in a 3rd world shithole with a local government full of niggers who build powerlines over road with just barely enough clearance for the average box Truck to pass under and think to themselves:>Yes this will do, there's no way a slightly taller Truck will ever come through here and if it does, it won't cause any catastrophic and potentially deadly problems
>>29033846>average only, no mention of medianLook man, I saw what my CEO pulled in last year, same as my department director. You can take average if you want, but no one on my team sees a 1/5th of what our management makes, so I feel like the top 10% isn't just 3 STDDEVs away here.
>>29033846yeah we make more money cause we run an extra 8 hours a week retard kike
>>29030609Thought he was hauling a 12 ft tall kitchen chair the first 3 times I watched this
>>29030612Maybe he's, god forgive me, phone posting
>>29030622>>29030664>>29030775Former lineman here. The thing that he hit isn't a power line. It's communications. Bundle of phone and internet and fiber type stuff. The actual power lines are just about universally above the communications stuff. Although obviously it tore the power down with it.What happens is the power company puts up their stuff, and then the communications company asks if they can hang their stuff on the same poles, and the power company doesn't check that the communications guys maintained proper obstacle clearance. Or maybe they did, but they hung it in winter and didn't hang it high enough, so on a hot day and summer it sagged down below the 13 ft whatever of standard road clearance. This is almost certainly the culprit. The communications guys are like the busch league dropouts for the overhead distribution power guys. One step above the tree guys lol
>>29034457>internet and fiber type stuffYou don't put that in the ground? That's where 90% of the stuff here is.
>>29034541>put internet line under paved road>there is a porblem>have to dig up entire roadthats why you're not in construction dumbass
>>29034557>put internet line under paved road>when you can put it alongside the roadsHate to break it to you anon but not everyone is as retarded as Americans.
>>29034558the lines will eventually have to go under paved roads, genius
>>29034541Put lines in the ground?!! Are you crazy?! Do you know how much that costs? If we did that then the line wouldn't go up as much as the CEO said it needs to and then I wouldn't get my bonus!
>>29034557This dude claims to be in construction yet has never seen a boring machine or conduit. Incredible really.
