Posted on 03/31/2015 6:54:17 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey
STOCKTON (CBS13) — A power surge left thousands without power for most of the day in Stockton after smart meters on their homes exploded on Monday.
The explosions started after a truck crashed into a utility pole, causing a surge around 8:30 a.m. on Monday morning.
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They are still refining it. That costs money, so time to raise rates.
I don’t blame smart meters for this one- they probably protected the rest of the homes’ contents from the surge by failing. They functioned as over-engineered circuit breakers.
I say, 'cut through the crapola'. Whether Regresscritter or SJW power company bureaucrat or tyrant wannabees using endless surveillance techniques, we should just label them 'anti-American arseholes' and be done with it. What few exceptions there are WILL figure it out.
utterly...Lobotomized
Cool
The electric company will charge the homeowners more money for all the extra electricity!
at inflated rates.... due to its being far in excess of their normal usage and therefore.... a LUXURY
Would this help in an EMP event?
I don’t think so.
The oh so competent Baltimore Gas and Electric utility tried to force me to get one through their extortion plan. When they denied lying to me even though I had it in writing from them, I told them I did not trust them and they needed to stay off my property. I pay the monthly fee for the analog meter.
If it serves as a surge cut off from the long power lines of the system, before it reaches inside the house, it seems like it would eliminate the worse part of the EMP threat, the threat of being plugged into the common system.
I love how news media types cannot grasp the situation. Every thing is a “power surge”.
“The top wire fell on the bottom wire” - well the top wire was probably a transmission voltage line, generally 69,000 volts or higher. The “bottom” wire was probably distribution voltage, probably in the 13 kV range. When the high voltage line fell onto the lower voltage line, it caused a momentary spike in voltage, well above the design voltage and every customer on that line experienced a brief jump in voltage, probably about 5-10 times normal.
Its a wonder only a few “smart” meters exploded, and I’d be willing to bet that there will be claims for other damaged appliances and such from the affected customers. Whether they will collect or not is another issue.
GOOD Question. Perhaps this was a test to see how the lumpen....would deal with a small catastrophe??
collect from a Monopoly? only on a game board
13,400.
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