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Cat Forum / General Topics / February 2004Electrocution
Check this link:http://www.whdh.com/news/articles/local/A33297/ What is to prevent this from happening to your cat and/or kid? (Note that kids wear shoes in the Winter, would they be doing so in the summer?) One thing the article is vague about, the electrical short occured during rains, the water conducted the electricity. A similar event occurred in the South End of Boston. >Check this link:http://www.whdh.com/news/articles/local/A33297/ > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > >A similar event occurred in the South End of Boston. If you are going to worry about that, be sure also to worry about such far more probably ways of being killed such as being hit by a meteorite, being bitten by a crocodile in some place like Ohio, spontaneously bursting into flame, or being eaten alive by your cats. T.E.D. (tdavis@gearbox.maem.umr.edu - e-mail must contain "T.E.D." or my .sig in the body) >If you are going to worry about that, be sure also to worry about such >far more probably ways of being killed such as being hit by a >meteorite, being bitten by a crocodile in some place like Ohio, >spontaneously bursting into flame, or being eaten alive by your cats. But the point you're missing is the people in Charlestown are concerned because this is the second instance in the Boston area in the space of a few months. The same thing happened in South Boston previously. Both occcurred during rain events. Once is a freak accident. Twice is something to start being concerned about. And considering I have relatives who live there I can see their concern. -------------------------------------------- "It took us 15 years to McGyver this thing." -------------------------Carter on Stargate To send me e-mail exorcise NO Spam from my e-mail address. >>If you are going to worry about that, be sure also to worry about such >>far more probably ways of being killed such as being hit by a [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >concerned about. And considering I have relatives who >live there I can see their concern. The physics are so restrictive that the effect is almost unknown. Yess it has to be wet, and the ground has to have some curious properties ... and to kill a person, the person would have to be crawling - if upright, there could be a shock, but the current would not pass through vital organs; only if hands were in the conductive column over the current leak, the body were over an insulating area, and teh feet were in a wet conductive area outside the leakage column would there be any current through the torso ... or perhaps standing in the current leak and holding on to something grounded. When an upright posture is factored in, the probability of serious injury or death all but vanishes. T.E.D. (tdavis@gearbox.maem.umr.edu) SPAM filter: Messages to this address *must* contain "T.E.D." somewhere in the body or they will be automatically rejected. >>>If you are going to worry about that, be sure also to worry about such >>>far more probably ways of being killed such as being hit by a [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] >upright posture is factored in, the probability of serious injury or >death all but vanishes. In the UK it's common to bury 275 kilovolt cables (oil cooled) under the main roads - and no-one seems to have any problems with these. I'd say that your chance of being shot was vastly greater - ie this really isn't worth working up that much of a fuss. >T.E.D. (tdavis@gearbox.maem.umr.edu) >SPAM filter: Messages to this address *must* contain "T.E.D." >somewhere in the body or they will be automatically rejected.  Signature79.84% of all statistics are made up on the spot. The other 42% are made up later on. In Warwick - looking at flat fields and that includes the castle. >In the UK it's common to bury 275 kilovolt cables (oil cooled) under the >main roads - and no-one seems to have any problems with these. I'd say >that your chance of being shot was vastly greater - ie this really isn't >worth working up that much of a fuss. Tell that to the people in Charlestown that were so rattled that city inspection services went over the intire town with a fine tooth comb looking for any elecricity going through anything that could remotely conduct electrity. The people in the community were rattled and the mayor heard it loud and clear. Even the building homeland security wants to use for short holdings didn't get this much attention in Charlestown. -------------------------------------------- "It took us 15 years to McGyver this thing." -------------------------Carter on Stargate To send me e-mail exorcise NO Spam from my e-mail address. |
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