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I think these are just electrical infrastructure shorting out. It's pretty obvious for the ones that occur at ground level on the horizon. The cloud lighting
by jrockway 3y ago
I think these are just electrical infrastructure shorting out. It's pretty obvious for the ones that occur at ground level on the horizon. The cloud lighting up blue is something obscured at ground level but reflected by the clouds.
Similar effect as "power flashes" from tornadoes; tornado blows on power lines, power lines short out, blue arc is produced, everything is bright blue for miles for a bit.
- JumpCrisscross 3y agoI don’t think there was electrical infrastructure in 869 CE.
- 1234letshaveatw 3y ago[flagged]
- lunarimiso 3y agoNor did substantial evidence
- dboreham 3y agoPossible. A few years ago a 33KV line came down onto the interstate near me, very early in the morning as I was heading out onto the road a couple of miles away and over a hill. From my viewpoint it looked like an alien abduction scene. In fact that was my best guess until I crested the hill and started to understand what had happened.
- ethbr1 3y agoI've never seen a high voltage line come down, but I did see a residential neighborhood distribution line start arcing. The color and sound were unlike anything I've ever seen or heard. From memory, something like a blue'd lightning bolt without thunder + the sound of 100 giant hornets shifted down in frequency. If you've ever seen welding light in person, imagine that intensified a couple orders of magnitude.
- Aachen 3y agoThe wind makes that it probably doesn't come across as as loud as it was, but something like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNaIChPiiww&t=11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNaIChPiiww&t=11
- ethbr1 3y agoYup! That's missing some of the low frequencies I remember, but captures the mid-high. I guess "incredibly loud sheet of paper tearing" would have been another description.
- bluescrn 3y agoSounds like it'd be intense enough to illuminate the base of low clouds at night, which would explain (most of?) what seems to be visible in that video.
- hadlock 3y agoYeah we would see these in Texas during snow storms. That blue green flash is typical for transformers. I took a video many years ago (with a consumer grade camera, which were terrible back then, especially in low light), you can see the flash just after the 1:50 mark https://youtu.be/UXf2N1iQ0Wc?si=d6QwBqqY9j1xl_7R&t=109 https://youtu.be/UXf2N1iQ0Wc?si=d6QwBqqY9j1xl_7R&t=109
- Aachen 3y agoHow do you know that's transformers? And doesn't this shut them down / why is it so regular that you knew to start filming?
- hadlock 3y agoYou see them blow during thunderstorms driving down the highway or across a bridge. Dallas gets an alarming amount of thunder during the summer as squall lines sweep across the state every week or two. I would imagine this was a cascade failure. I was reading a book of watching a movie and saw them out of the corner of my eye and finally decided to start filming.
- dekhn 3y agoWithout commenting on this specific set of videos, it is already generally considered established that there are bright sky flashes before earthquakes that are not related to electrical infrastructure, but rather, natural in origin.
- fennecfoxy 3y agoOh yeah they are 100% electrical arcs.