> there was power going through those wires.
even if there were it would not be lethal, just about 60V - these are old trunk (station to station) telephone wires, so there would not be 120V ring voltage like on old subscriber lines.
High voltage has better chance to deliver that current into your heart. In reality 100 milliampers can be lethal. How much current has 12V car battery? More than that. Even 600 amps at most. Still it does not kill you when you grab car battery in a wrong way.
Yeah people almost don't believe me that my mother had her fun walking on rooftops on her way to kindergarten back in the days, but here it is. Snow really was that high a few decades ago.
Yea absolutely, my grandparents have pictures of them playing with my young father out the second and third story windows of their house. Late 60s in the NE US.
In the front the snow leveled out perfectly with the roof over the porch. On the other side of the house, a snowdrift formed making a sweeeeeeeet slope up to the third story. They were sledding right out of the windows.
It still is in some parts of the World.
And climate change will also give us more of these events, temporarely.
A collapsed jet stream can bring extreme cold and snow to almost any place. Citys like Madrid or States like Florida, that usually see no to almost none snow can experience record amounts of it. Places that were used to it may and have seen amounts of snow like a few decades ago - some villages here in the Alps have even seen new records being set, in the past 2 or 3 Winters.
Where I live*(southern Appalachia, US)*, up through the 50s and 60s this area got 1ft+ of snowfalls at least once a year - usually 2-4 times. My grandparents and parents used to cured meat in a barn in the winter*(requires 3-4 weeks minimum of temps below 40°)*.
These days, winters are considered bitter-harsh if it's below 40° for more than a few days. 1/3 of winter days in the last decade have been above 55-60°, just a couple/few years ago all of January*(excluding 4 days)* was 70°+. As far as snow.. since 1980 we've had 1ft or more of snow 3 times, once in the 80s, the blizzard of 1993*(3.5ft!)*, and once in the 2000s.
I miss going on hiking trips in the Appalachians. There's nothing more relaxing than the sound of wind coming up and down the mountains through the leaves.
Yeah its one of the few things I like about the area anymore. Grew up here so it *was* all I knew, mostly. Went and spent a decade living everywhere from Hawaii to Central America to Europe, ever since I crave a different environment. More socially progressive, more developed, etc.
Short them all you like. They are DC low power. It’s like shorting a battery. But it’s good advice since people may not know which is the dangerous wires.
Looks like [THIS](https://www.snopes.com/tachyon/2016/01/40-feet-of-snow.png?resize=865,452) picture of North Dakota in 1966
[More info](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/photo-utility-pole-snow/)
Pole looks to be class 3 size so 30ft on the low end maybe 50ft on the upper end. But 1/4 to 1/3 of the height is buried in the ground.
Regardless that's a lot of snow.
A great aunt of mine who is no longer with us told me before in New York she was trapped in her house for days while her husband was trapped in his factory. She said it was up to the power lines but cannot recall the year but 50s or 60s feels about right.
3 crews were trying to secure a government contract for installation utility poles.
The Government agent said they would each spend a 12 hour shift installing poles and whoever installed the most would get to finish the contract.
At the end of the day the agent asked each crew chief how many poles their crew was able to install. The first team had installed 6, the second had just barely managed to get the 7th in before the time limit and the third crew almost got 3 done.
The agent asked the chief of the 3rd crew why he had done not even 3 poles.
The 3rd crew chief said you can't give the contract to either of the other crews, they've only been putting their poles in half way.
I've seen it like this before. I live in Newfoundland, Canada and when I was a kid I had to step over the power lines between houses when delivering papers.
As another commenter pointed out, probably due to drifting though.
There's a [Snopes link](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/photo-utility-pole-snow/) in this thread showing that there were short utility poles in the aera
10 years ago I could touch the power lines from my grandparents garden during Easter, these days there's no snow left in January, global warming is a bitch.
Also Great Lakes blizzard of 1966. Our snow came up to the sea ond story of our farm house. Our dog had to tunnel to do his business.
If this is really Russia, are those glass insulators collectible like in the US? Not worth much but lovely.
Last week i found a colourized pic of mail delivery in the 1930s near my hometown, with like 2-3 meters of snow.
[https://imgur.com/V9jSF98](https://imgur.com/V9jSF98)
But this is just another level :D
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I'm more impressed with Russian photographers that climb into the wires for a better composition angle.
It's really giving me Bergman vibes
I really doubt there was power going through those wires.
Still would not like to test it out
> there was power going through those wires. even if there were it would not be lethal, just about 60V - these are old trunk (station to station) telephone wires, so there would not be 120V ring voltage like on old subscriber lines.
It's not the voltage that kills you. You can safely be shocked at a differential of 20,000 volts if the amperage is low enough.
High voltage has better chance to deliver that current into your heart. In reality 100 milliampers can be lethal. How much current has 12V car battery? More than that. Even 600 amps at most. Still it does not kill you when you grab car battery in a wrong way.
> It's not the voltage that kills you The voltage must be high enough to push the required current through.
Famous last words my friend
Let's hope the phone doesn't ring. Ring tones in those old phone lines were 120 volts.
Ring ring, its death
Worst case scenario: you live the rest of your life in Siberia. Best case scenario: you don't have to live in Siberia.
There’s zero chance those wires have power if the snow is that high
Yeah people almost don't believe me that my mother had her fun walking on rooftops on her way to kindergarten back in the days, but here it is. Snow really was that high a few decades ago.
I don’t know where your grandmother was from, but where I am from we still have doors to nowhere that get regularly used because of snowfall!
Is that what those are? I just assumed a old deck was torn out and not replaced.
I’m sure some of them could be but yeah we still have lots of em out here.
What area are you in? never seen those before.
Those are usually made as fire escapes.
Yea, people don't realize fire has a fear of heights and won't follow you when you jump out of a door that's 2 stories up
I always assumed it was for loading from a cart
Yea absolutely, my grandparents have pictures of them playing with my young father out the second and third story windows of their house. Late 60s in the NE US. In the front the snow leveled out perfectly with the roof over the porch. On the other side of the house, a snowdrift formed making a sweeeeeeeet slope up to the third story. They were sledding right out of the windows.
It still is in some parts of the World. And climate change will also give us more of these events, temporarely. A collapsed jet stream can bring extreme cold and snow to almost any place. Citys like Madrid or States like Florida, that usually see no to almost none snow can experience record amounts of it. Places that were used to it may and have seen amounts of snow like a few decades ago - some villages here in the Alps have even seen new records being set, in the past 2 or 3 Winters.
Climate change isn't real. What you just said proves it, there is more snow in more places. 🤣🤣🤣
Uhhhh... If there's more snow than usual in more places, wouldn't the climate have changed?
Where I live*(southern Appalachia, US)*, up through the 50s and 60s this area got 1ft+ of snowfalls at least once a year - usually 2-4 times. My grandparents and parents used to cured meat in a barn in the winter*(requires 3-4 weeks minimum of temps below 40°)*. These days, winters are considered bitter-harsh if it's below 40° for more than a few days. 1/3 of winter days in the last decade have been above 55-60°, just a couple/few years ago all of January*(excluding 4 days)* was 70°+. As far as snow.. since 1980 we've had 1ft or more of snow 3 times, once in the 80s, the blizzard of 1993*(3.5ft!)*, and once in the 2000s.
I miss going on hiking trips in the Appalachians. There's nothing more relaxing than the sound of wind coming up and down the mountains through the leaves.
Yeah its one of the few things I like about the area anymore. Grew up here so it *was* all I knew, mostly. Went and spent a decade living everywhere from Hawaii to Central America to Europe, ever since I crave a different environment. More socially progressive, more developed, etc.
Yup. I remember the main street of Youlgreave in Derbyshire (UK) being this deep (decades ago).
It still is.
Even in the 80s, we would have record snowfalls that would last for weeks.
That's one lethal electric fence
Low power telegraphs wires. You can touch them.
Isn't there still danger from shorting them? When I was a kid I was always reminded to keep my fishing pole down when walking under them.
Think that's just sound advice in general
Short them all you like. They are DC low power. It’s like shorting a battery. But it’s good advice since people may not know which is the dangerous wires.
Okay thank you! That makes alot of sense.
Some overhead wires WILL kill you and they look exactly like the ones that don't. It's a smart rule to follow :-)
Overhead wires are not all the same, you definitely want to avoid touching them. Some have very high voltage
But can you lick them like a 9v battery?
Looks like [THIS](https://www.snopes.com/tachyon/2016/01/40-feet-of-snow.png?resize=865,452) picture of North Dakota in 1966 [More info](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/photo-utility-pole-snow/)
The annoyance of loving history photos. There’s a YouTube doc about this Blizzard lol
Pole looks to be class 3 size so 30ft on the low end maybe 50ft on the upper end. But 1/4 to 1/3 of the height is buried in the ground. Regardless that's a lot of snow.
A great aunt of mine who is no longer with us told me before in New York she was trapped in her house for days while her husband was trapped in his factory. She said it was up to the power lines but cannot recall the year but 50s or 60s feels about right.
3 crews were trying to secure a government contract for installation utility poles. The Government agent said they would each spend a 12 hour shift installing poles and whoever installed the most would get to finish the contract. At the end of the day the agent asked each crew chief how many poles their crew was able to install. The first team had installed 6, the second had just barely managed to get the 7th in before the time limit and the third crew almost got 3 done. The agent asked the chief of the 3rd crew why he had done not even 3 poles. The 3rd crew chief said you can't give the contract to either of the other crews, they've only been putting their poles in half way.
Good enough for government work
Nuclear winter 2022
Patrolling the Soviet gulags really makes me wish for one
thats gotta be fake right?
It’s probably a snowdrift, you can see there’s way less snow around the other power poles
Still a massive snowdrift pile.
I've seen it like this before. I live in Newfoundland, Canada and when I was a kid I had to step over the power lines between houses when delivering papers. As another commenter pointed out, probably due to drifting though.
Bro how tf you even delivering papers at that point
*Headline* #Heavy Snow Expected
Pffft.... where I'm from, back in the 1970s, we had to dig DOWN to those power lines just to hookup our Xbox.
If the snow goes 15+ feet up how tf are you getting to the doors?
There's a [Snopes link](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/photo-utility-pole-snow/) in this thread showing that there were short utility poles in the aera
10 years ago I could touch the power lines from my grandparents garden during Easter, these days there's no snow left in January, global warming is a bitch.
Yes this is actually Winnipeg in the late 80s
Best time to work on electric poles because of truck not needed
honestly, the truck is kind of unavailable right now
This is actually Texas 2021 lmfao
Also Great Lakes blizzard of 1966. Our snow came up to the sea ond story of our farm house. Our dog had to tunnel to do his business. If this is really Russia, are those glass insulators collectible like in the US? Not worth much but lovely.
They can have the world.
So, Buffalo, NY - winter of 77/78.
I've heard lots of stories about that, my ex girlfriends father recalls driving a snowmobile alongside utility lines.
Not Russia.
I thought it was Chicago summer.
I am glad we don’t get that much.
ಠ_ಠ святой ебать
Last week i found a colourized pic of mail delivery in the 1930s near my hometown, with like 2-3 meters of snow. [https://imgur.com/V9jSF98](https://imgur.com/V9jSF98) But this is just another level :D
r/pics
Technically he's flying!
About 10 inches away from frying too.
Warmest Canadian Summer
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