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 Remember that power outage that had #FRZ offline a while last week? Today I saw PG&E working on that corner and asked the lineman what they’re doing. He pointed at a pole and said “replacing the burned one”.

What.

I didn’t even know that was a failure mode.

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 @edbba727 I like the hotfix they did 🤣 
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Wood can burn? Just from a measley few thousand volts of arcing electricity?! How could this have been forseen?
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Disappointing lack of squirrels there. 
 @edbba727 AMP not PG&E, no? Or is this elsewhere?