The weather forecast says that we are supposed to get lots of lightning tonite so I was wondering do the grid operators and DNO do any special changes or preparations for it?
Back in the 1980’s when I worked on new housing sites I would frequently sit and have lunch with DNO guys who were also working on site.
The one pair of guys who were based in Worcester had a call in the middle of the night to go over to Herefordshire to restore the supplies to properties that had lost them during a heavy thunderstorm.
They said they got to the top of Fromes Hill on the Worcester to Hereford road from where you can see across to Wales, they said lighting was streaking down and hitting the wire work supporting the bines in the hop yards lighting up the whole fields at a time.
So they parked on the side of the road and brewed a pot of tea then sat and watched the light show having decided there was no way that they were going to go anywhere near a hop yard until the storm was over.
Back in the 1980’s when I worked on new housing sites I would frequently sit and have lunch with DNO guys who were also working on site.
The one pair of guys who were based in Worcester had a call in the middle of the night to go over to Herefordshire to restore the supplies to properties that had lost them during a heavy thunderstorm.
They said they got to the top of Fromes Hill on the Worcester to Hereford road from where you can see across to Wales, they said lighting was streaking down and hitting the wire work supporting the bines in the hop yards lighting up the whole fields at a time.
So they parked on the side of the road and brewed a pot of tea then sat and watched the light show having decided there was no way that they were going to go anywhere near a hop yard until the storm was over.
