WOW arc welding in the front yard :-).

[William Danielson]

We had some freezing rain today in 43543, and some wind. I had a few 
power blips....most stuff would stay on but computers shut off. I caught 
something out the front window out of the corner of my eye, and opened 
the door and HOLY COW :-).

The power lines in front of the house were arcing phase to phase, would 
start on the right and move to the left, 8-10 FEET of arc....big shower 
of reddish orange sparks would cascade into the field across the street.

The Village lineman pulled in the drive and had seen it from town, shut 
things off and went up and put up a new insulator and moved one wire 
away from the others some.

Got lucky and managed to snap a half asterisk picture through the glass 
of the storm door.....picture does not remotely do it justice.

http://i.imgur.com/MegKRFX.jpg

Bill