How a thunderstorm actually causes power outages.
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1) Thunder hits high voltage cables, transformers and switches.
2) Trees (sometimes heavy limbs) fall over cables taking them down. Sometimes taking down entire power pols.
In the USA a lot of high voltage lines (the large high up buzzing lines) and residential power lines (the wood poles with cables on them. Birds normally rest on these) thunderstorms normally cause high winds. This can nock trees and branches onto the power lines. Also these lines can get struck by lightning. If these above ground lines get damaged the power can go out. Also bad weather tends to cause bad drivers. These bad drivers can hit power poles or damage power lines.
There’s an “army of hamsters” running in wheels at places called a power plant. This generates static electricity like you might feel from an inflated ballon or when you rub your feet to stock your family.
When lighting from a thunder storm knock over one of the “hamsters”, they are stunned and need some time to get back on the wheel. Human workers called engineers are paid to called them.
Sometimes the lighting hits a power line, that causes the “hamster’s” static to not reach us. They are running, running, running but need human engineers to fix the power lines before the hamsters can give us static.
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