Electricity arcing through tree - GIF

Electricity arcing through tree.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...873#post144438
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...108#post141257
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...506#post132064
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...7238#post85318
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...214#post218310

I have either 7200v or 14.4kv (not sure which) lines running up my 1000 ft long driveway with a transformer 50 ft from my house. There are probably 50 trees pushed up hard against the wires. No arcing. I wonder why this one let go. 27.6kv lines? Higher? Something particularly conductive about that tree?

"Something particularly conductive about that tree?"

Maybe it's Ironwood :D:rimshot:

That last POP before they drop the camera seems to say "response time this, Karen."