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Sitting in my office in DC watching lightning strike all around...then saw the following on the Homeland blotter today...
June 09, Muskegon Chronicle (MI) — A 4,800−volt line snaps, jolts woman 200 feet away. A Grand Haven Township, MI, woman feels lucky to be alive after her freak near−electrocution outside her home Thursday, June 7 −− caused by a high−voltage power line that fell some 200 feet away when a tree toppled onto it.
Marylynn Baker was thrown backward through the air,shocked unconscious and sent into convulsions by the distant downed wire after she stepped in a puddle near her swimming pool, she said. Baker suffered scrapes to her back from the fall and sore muscles. Baker said doctors monitored her heart for rhythm irregularities, which can occur in cases of severe electrical shock. Her 14−year−old son suffered a smaller shock after he ran out of the house to help his mother. He was unhurt. Consumers Energy Co. employees are investigating. The company had no immediate explanation for what could have carried the power such a great distance from the fallen line. The downed wire was a primary distribution line which carried 4,800 volts. "At this point our assumption is the primary line came down on something that energized either the pool, or something else she neared or was touching," Company spokesperson Tim Pietryga said. The incident happened during Thursday's high winds.
Source: http://www.mlive.com/news/muchronicle/index.ssf?/base/news−11/1181384132318510.xml&coll=8
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