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[Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>]

on Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 12:31:51PM -0500, Scott Lundgren wrote:
> 
> >Did anyone see the lightshow that occurred through the night on Wednesday
> night/Thursday morning?
> > The sky kept turning a funky color of green...
> 
> I thought it might have been cloud-to-cloud lightning but the flash pattern
> was irregular and there was that odd blue/green color. The best explanation
> I could find in the Thursday news was exploding transformers...

Yeah, you'd see a very bright (or not-so-bright, if you weren't in
direct line of sight) blue/bluish-green light, then hear a pop and maybe
a deep THRUM sound, right? Those were exploding transformers. Probably
even more hazardous than the ice itself - those things are filled with
oil laced with PCBs. When they're working, the oil can get very hot,
too. When I was in Syracuse, one blew up on a popular shopping street
and ruined a friend's car.

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