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Why does high wind cause power cuts?

Andy Millar
May sound like a stupid question but then "there's no such thing as...". Is it typically because the phases in a three phase line touch? Or because branches blow into the lines and arc across? Or sometimes one thing, sometimes another?


Google let me down, so posting this - in one of those brief intervals when we do have power today :) It's the fact that what ever is causing them is obviously easily resettable - by the rate ours has been going on and off today - that made me start thinking about it. (It's on the HV lines affecting my village and half the adjacent small town. But not, you'll all be relieved to hear, the Ginsters' pasty factory which is on the other side of town :D ) 


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Andy
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    When it's windy/stormy at our place in France, our power usually goes out at some point. This though is because we're in a very rural area and it's the bushes and tree branches that either take the lines down or tangle into them.


    Last year our Mayor had the trees and bushes either side of the power lines up to the village cut back rather dramatically. So hopefully not so many power cuts from now on. ?


    On this side of the English Channel, we're always experiencing power cuts in our home in the UK (not in a 'rural' area at all) sometimes just a few seconds or so but long enough for me to have to reset all my clocks and other electronic gadgets! No idea why but the locals say it's been happening for many, many, MANY  years. Odd because in my last home (I lived there for around 20 years) I can count the number of power cuts we had on the fingers of one hand.  5 years in my new home and I'm already well into double digits.
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    When it's windy/stormy at our place in France, our power usually goes out at some point. This though is because we're in a very rural area and it's the bushes and tree branches that either take the lines down or tangle into them.


    Last year our Mayor had the trees and bushes either side of the power lines up to the village cut back rather dramatically. So hopefully not so many power cuts from now on. ?


    On this side of the English Channel, we're always experiencing power cuts in our home in the UK (not in a 'rural' area at all) sometimes just a few seconds or so but long enough for me to have to reset all my clocks and other electronic gadgets! No idea why but the locals say it's been happening for many, many, MANY  years. Odd because in my last home (I lived there for around 20 years) I can count the number of power cuts we had on the fingers of one hand.  5 years in my new home and I'm already well into double digits.
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