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by InclinedPlane 3211 days ago
This is what you call "a theory", but it's one with no evidence to back it up. Can you point to other videos of electric grid damage that look similar?

The idea of "Earthquake lights" is also a theory, but it's becoming increasingly more likely these days as evidence piles up.

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> This is what you call "a theory", but it's one with no evidence to back it up. Can you point to other videos of electric grid damage that look similar?

I'm not sure what you're getting at here, have you not seen high voltage lines blow up before personally? Or are you just making a point in this regard? Because the flashes of lights you see on the horizon etc during a heavy storm knocking over transformers and main lines is a pretty widely known thing.

I don't understand why you're demanding evidence of it, but:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29O9rzJZurQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLVFyhyghZo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqAGYXwj6XM

etc

Hah, the guys in the first one are funny:

"Something's definitely going wrong there."

"Definitely... Do you think it's a new nightclub?"

Haha, I'm glad that's the best/worst of it... Posting videos from work without checking the audio can be a game of russian roulette at times
I saw a transmission line arcing while driving the other night, just over the crest of a hill. It looked like an alien abduction was in progress. I only know it came from a downed line because a minute later I arrived at the scene and was just able to stop before running over the still live wires lying on the freeway.