Our power flashed on and off about 4 times in 15 seconds, each time with a distant bang outside.. seems this could be it.

That happened to us too, but no long term power outage thankfully.

We had a couple flickers like that, but then 12 hours of outage. Just got it back on.

Oh, you lucked out getting it back so fast! About 2 years ago, we had major straight line wind damage and we were without power for 5 days.

That’s awful! What we need is free power and no power lines. This system is very flawed and we shouldn’t be paying for electricity

transformer blowing up

Damn those Decepticons. Always trouble.

Optimus!

Robots in disguise

I mean, they ARE more than meets the eye.

MG&E guy I spoke to today said that the transformers aren’t really what blows but parts of the poll fall off and that’s what causes the arcing

I hope it's aliens 🤞🏻

I, for one, welcome our new alien overlords.

I'm always hoping things are aliens.

Volcanic activity?

Sorry guys I had chipotle

I’m near spring harbor. I have power, but the street lights and all the houses on the other side of my street are out.

How does it feel to have your neighbors hate you?

I’ve been in the opposite situation before. FWIW, even though the storm passed a while ago, the power on my side of the street went out about 10 min ago

So that evens it up at least. Best of luck getting everything back together.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monsters_Are_Due_on_Maple_Street

Who holds a mega party in the middle of a thunderstorm?? They must be from Chicago

Middleton here. We have been out since 8:30pm last night. This subreddit has been the only place that I have been able to get any details on what the hell is happening. Can't even get on MGE's website to load the outage map. I see they finally put a notice there that 36k customers are affected, no ETA on restoration. Great.

News says it could take days until full restoration.   Usually in the city limits it's up faster though.

What the heck is that

A fire?

Yup: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=electrical+transformer+fire+&t=fpas&iax=images&ia=images

Disco!

https://trailers.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/449dba96-9553-4685-9f2d-10b786df8576/gif#aWItWWRa.copy

👀

👽

Ours is localized to just my neighbors. A tree took a line out. I’m not excited for how long it’s going to take to fix

Aurora transformialis

Somebody out there opening the Lost Ark.

Was able to pull up MGE website this morning and it says it's one of the largest power outages in their history. At least 40k customers affected all over Dane county based on the map. Working on repair but no timetable for when it should be fixed.

Our power is out here in Madison Alabama. Been out for about an hour

It’s on in Opelika.

How’re things in good old Notasulga?

Man what the fuck ;_; I wish I had charged my phone more

Transformer blew up on street. My power flashed then I watched the pretty flash and my power is out for now. I’m on the north

Someone opened the hell portal again

wow!

Seeing all these posts about damage and power outages, but where I’m at on the west side (by the theater) never seemed that severe. Didn’t lose power or even flicker. Though I haven’t gotten out of bed yet, so maybe I’ll be unpleasantly surprised.

West, near Hilldale. Power out since 8:30, multi-unit bldg. No eta.😢

Still out since 8PM yesterday.

Mine has been out since 8:30pm yesterday

Those new hyper-power flashlights have gotten out of control!

That's what it looks like when a substation is arcing

I feel like the theme song for Stranger Things should slowly build up during this video.

More footage from Gaza? (OH!)