Took my sister back to North Dakota did a 750 miles turn around the North Dakota news said severe storms were on they way looks like something followed me home got home at Midnight hit the sack at 4am lighting hit our huge elm it pulled the 70 power pole over & snapped another pole here are the results 55 Buick Special Ht looks to be ok the power lines are just above that branch on the roof the replacement pole is waiting on the crew to remove and install shot of the trunk you can see what happened to the 70 foot pole split it our other pole spun from the weight of the elm forcing the lines into the spruce sparks & smoke followed no fire yet the guy working out of this bucket on this truck got balls he unhook and attached the wires to the new pole the top lines were High voltage transmission line the lower line were residential lines either one would kill you in a heart beat there were 8 Excel Energy trucks working on this My hats off to them and any of you guys on Hamb that do this work this was to close for comfort
might of won it already can't tell yet till the lines get away for the car you got that right Marty walked out this morning and saw this and about loaded my pants Rob thinks i do nice work making a woody the hard way
loaded the 55 Special on the trailer today it was on a incline lots of fun kept adding chain till it was close to the trailer and winched it on roof's down where tree hit it porta power would help found a buyer he's going to build a gasser
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