Electric Pole Hanging After a Wild Fire

IamBake · 7 months

Get down from there pole! You're supposed to be grounded!

loki010 · 7 months

Image source and more information.

oztralia · 7 months

I knew all of those poles weren't necessary

kicklecubicle · 7 months

Look at that cross shape... it's clearly a miracle!! Praise the Lord!!!

ProbablyMisreadThat · 7 months

I guess Minecraft wasn't that inaccurate after all.

K931SAR · 7 months

It died for our sins...

julius_please_her · 7 months

This looks like it could be a Pink Floyd album cover.

exzyle2k · 7 months

Wow... That's some Salvador Dali-esque shit right there.

andrewsmith1986 · 7 months

I wonder how much weight that can be supported.

aulion · 7 months

i feel like a scum bag saying this but this photo is faked if that actually happened then the lines would sag. basic physics say that it is impossible for this to happen the tension the lines would have to be so great that they would snap long before reaching a strait line

MiniDriver · 7 months

It's a real life Salvador Dali.

essar612 · 7 months

That's an old telegraph line. But if the source is correct and it's in Russia....new line?

king0pa1n · 7 months

reminds me of Minecraft

[deleted] · 7 months

Did anyone else see Jesus with a tail from the thumbnail?

AndaleMono · 7 months

This reminds me of the Mitch Hedberg Joke: "My belt holds up my pants and my pants have belt loops that hold up the belt. What the fuck’s really goin on down there? Who is the real hero?"

justfetus · 7 months

Hold on, what was the point of that pole in the first place then?

cabomorales · 7 months

The not so old photoshop tool: content aware.

Wildfire9 · 7 months

Sorry 'bout that!

Klumpmeister · 7 months

Dali?

fuczak · 7 months

I call BS on this one.

apullin · 7 months

Fake. The lines will not hold that much tension that evenly.

dontmutemeplz · 7 months

Needs more Jesus.

MrWhiskers5 · 7 months

Looks shooped.

deeve04 · 7 months

"I'm still here mutha fucka, I'm still here."

rawrc · 7 months

Must have been lying it's ass off...

jezza24 · 7 months

Good guy electric pole: Gets burnt.. keeps the connection alive

Paultimate79 · 7 months

I dont find this half as amazing as the fact it survived a wildfire basically burning right under it.

mikojack · 7 months

Electrifixion

HaveaManhattan · 7 months

That's some Fallout shit.

loveschach · 7 months

This reminds me of when I fought on the Blackwater.

YoungGeorgeJung · 7 months

that was in a pic with jesus one time wasnt it

proddy · 7 months

Well... prepare for the onslaught of facebook posts.

LiteRobot · 7 months

"Hey pole, what's up?"

"Not much, just hanging out."

guria · 7 months

Woody Woodpecker? Was that you?

BARBAC0A · 7 months

Is this perhaps in Bastrop, TX?

tvrtyler · 7 months

Someone photoshop jesus onto that.

hels · 7 months

Control f: Jesus

I'm late to the party.

FightScene · 7 months

So the poles are there to hold the wires up, but the wires are also holding the poles up. What the fuck's really going on here? Who is the real hero?

WhatHitlerSaid · 7 months

Forget wireless electricity, I'm going for pole-less electricity!

tog20 · 7 months

Imagine the trees that would be saved by skipping every other pole.

sleepingchild · 7 months

I don't know why, but this just creeps me out. D:

cualcrees · 7 months

That's a cross.

Haggismaximus · 7 months

Looks like Banksy

chainsaw_juggler · 7 months

I guess you could say those are "high tension" wires...

Amm0 · 7 months

Does this mean the engineers were inefficient by at least 50%?

CndConnection · 7 months

Thats some fucked up shit

I honestly can say i havent seen that shit before.

dMage · 7 months

So does the pole hold the lines up or the lines hold the pole up! Who's the real hero

ShadowBasic · 7 months

It's just a flesh wound...

GiraffeHat · 7 months

It's a ghost-pole. o_o

BackspinBubba · 7 months

Not an electric pole. Railroad communications pole.

natefoo · 7 months

I worked as a cable guy for a couple years. One time I was called out for a disconnect and the notes on the workorder simply stated that the residence had burned down. When I got there, there was indeed a black trailer-sized patch of ground at the address. Over at the pole, the cable was hanging almost straight down into the bushes, where someone had tossed all the excess. I felt like an archaeologist as I pulled it out of the bushes a few feet at a time. First there was a bit of blistering on the outer jacket, followed by it melting off. The shielding quickly turned black, and then further down it had melted away to reveal that the dieletric was also gone. The conductor was actually fairly intact for quite a while longer, but it eventually ended in a brittle black char.

cookiedan · 7 months

what kind of wizardry is this?

GrinningPariah · 7 months

Apparently that one was unnecessary.

[deleted] · 7 months

So they could be spending 50% less on power lines poles.

The_Dufranes · 7 months

What wood Jesus do?

fatherrabbi · 7 months

JESUS

CrayolaS7 · 7 months

Wow, either that lens being wide angle is distorting the image or they are incredibly high tension cables, since they don't appear to be sagging at all. Especially after a fire that you'd think would have made the cables expand even more.

lokigreybush · 7 months

Just need to staple a hippie to it, and BAM! New religion

karlsmalls43 · 7 months

Pics or it didn't happen.

Mongoose42 · 7 months

Hang in there, poley!

LogicMobile · 7 months

Jesus fried on the cross for our sins

Valkie · 7 months

He died for our electricity.

commi_furious · 7 months

Wait....so the wires hold up the poles. Mind=blown.

Fadoodie · 7 months

this is proof that there are at least twice as many electric poles as necessary

Exasperatic · 7 months

Now that's fucking dedication to your job

jesussmoke · 7 months

Noppeer

playswithknives · 7 months

Now I have the song 'Wichita Lineman' stuck in my head.

Hush399 · 7 months

Good Guy Pole:

Has no legs to stand on

Stands

karmaforeveryone · 7 months

Thumbnail looks like Jesus! Must be a sign

xkcdfanboy · 7 months

Why does this remind me of Trueblood?

mayaknife · 7 months

That's why they string the wires between the poles, to keep them from falling over.

wdai · 7 months

that's really f***ing scary

MishkaEchoes · 7 months

Tight!

a11city · 7 months

i didnt know they could hang like that

danielvutran · 7 months

This picture make anyone else cry....?

yablebab · 7 months

So that pole wasn't really needed anyway?

rainbrodashie · 7 months

HALLELUJAH PRAISE JESUS

vapoliciousent · 7 months

Some high grade American craftsmanship right there

SuiXi3D · 7 months

Damnit, that's what I hate most about playing Minecraft online. People leave floating wood everywhere.

snoogins1 · 7 months

Its a sign

spazzlecrayola · 7 months

It's not really levitation. I can clearly see the wires.

Ace1999 · 7 months

That is just...AWESOME!

akbc · 7 months

Why did jesus cross the road?

USctzen · 7 months

FREELOADER!

kyzfrintin · 7 months

Is it Minecraft?

K21B21 · 7 months

Fuck you mother nature.

ps02210 · 7 months

Clearly they installed more poles than they needed to.

titmau5 · 7 months

Such photoshop....u coulda at least shifted the wires so it looks like the pole is pulling on em

Nemafrog · 7 months

omg its jeebus

botj · 7 months

Photo was taken in Crimea, I have seen a dozens of burned down EPoles. It was a really hot summer that year.

SenorCheaposGato · 7 months

Did anyone else look at this and immediately think of Lilith from Neon Genesis Evangelion?

velocity010 · 7 months

if it was able to it would give zero fucks!

mannyderts · 7 months

Am I the only one who see a ZOMBIE POLE?

jpan1o1 · 7 months

careful ur gonna get banned from that minecraft server

fanboat · 7 months

Well shit, they should just get rid of all the poles and leave the wires in the air. Save some money, you know?

brumbrum21 · 7 months

HAHAHAHA

ಠ_ಠ

*Edit: I'm just jelly

Vid6dot7 · 7 months

I'm surprised the wires didn't melt

pghreddit · 7 months

I can't believe nobody has said this yet:

Gives a whole new meaning to 'smoking pole.'

zerolimits0 · 7 months

Electric Pole: Your doing it wrong.

Gemini1 · 7 months

reminds me of some kinda abstract pink floydish album cover

jaschen · 7 months

JESUS CHRIST!!!

DesertTripper · 7 months

This is kind of saddening to me as a technological history buff. These are not power lines but old-school open-wire telephone lines. There are very few lines like this still in existence. One would hope that this line is still in service and will be repaired, but many times these historic lines are abandoned in place and those involved are just letting nature take its course.

One prominent open-wire line that died in the not too distant past was the approximately 20 mile run from Halloran Summit, CA to the Mojave Phone Booth - one of the first viral phenomena on the Internet. At the height of its popularity the phone rang constantly with calls from all over the world. Sadly, the NPS had it out for the booth (it was on land turned over to the NPS by the California Desert Protection Act, creating the Mojave National Preserve) and had it ripped out. The line is still there but deteriorating, and there is a place where fire came through and burned some cross-arms (though the poles didn't end up like the one here.)

One interesting thing about long open-wire runs is they act as a VLF radio antenna. While conversing on the Mojave phone, you could hear pings and pops on the line that were caused by lightning strikes hundreds or thousands of miles away!

Fishtails · 7 months

The thumbnail looks like a crucifix.

iAmericA45 · 7 months

When I was younger, I attended some faith seminar where they used this exact photo as evidence that Jesus was watching over the area that the fire hit.

I asked "Why couldn't he have just put it out?"

No answer.

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