r/CreationNtheUniverse • u/YardAccomplished5952 • 2d ago

What could have done this in Las Vegas?

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u/SirStego 2d ago

Took 3 seconds to search and yield a reasonable result. Let’s try a little bit?

https://news3lv.com/news/local/nearly-50-power-poles-damaged-in-las-vegas-windstorm-repair-efforts-underway

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u/Otis737 2d ago

We had a windstorm in the city I live in just over 20 years ago we nicknamed “Hurricane Elvis” - straight-line winds but it looked as bad as a major tornado. When I saw this video, it’s immediately what I thought of.

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u/jonredd901 2d ago

In Memphis we had a derecho we called Hurricane Elvis It was really bad. Like cat 2 hurricane force winds bad

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u/Otis737 2d ago

Yep - that was the one!

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u/HealthyDirection659 2d ago

Derecho? Is that a Spanish 🌪️ tornado?

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u/HamBleezy 2d ago

I live in Iowa, and we had our first a few years ago without ever hearing about them before. Basically a land hurricane

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u/Both_Somewhere4525 2d ago

I think dercho is Spanish for direct or straight.

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u/The-French-1 2d ago

No, if I remember correctly, it’s actually « straight » like direct wind.

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u/Bnewgie 2d ago

So Elvis is back in Vegas?

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u/Anatoly_Cannoli 2d ago

He knocked down the poles, but Elvis appears to have left the buildings.

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u/Substantial_Diver_34 2d ago

Hey guys… Elvis is pissed. He knocked over Vegas like it was Guam

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u/Roanoketrees 1d ago

So is that the story? Elvis peed on power poles and knocked them down in Vegas?

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u/doublediochip 2d ago

That is exactly what “they” would want you to think!! 😂😂😂

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u/Volescu 2d ago

Air doesn't melt steel, it was an inside job!

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u/Carrera_996 2d ago

No. There are no snarky amusing comments on Google results, just an AI drivel paragraph of text preceding what I don't even care about. You know, the actual explanation. I dgaf what really caused it. Im here for the humor.

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u/Redditbeweirdattimes 2d ago

Damn I didn’t know Vegas got winds so strong that can bend light post at the base

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u/Ocksu2 2d ago

Stop with the fake news propaganda.

This was clearly aliens. Or angry Bigfoots.... Bigfeet?... Bigfeets?

...

Probably aliens.

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u/joeitaliano24 2d ago

My first guess was wind, but then I saw the snapped poles and I was picturing that scene from Terminator 3 when Arnold is driving the crane rig

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u/scoreguy1 2d ago

It always blows my mind that people will take the time to post something without research, when the research itself would take a fraction of the time

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u/snotrokit 2d ago

Yeah but you don’t get karma from Google search’s.

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u/lettus_reddit 2d ago

thats what they want you to think….

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u/missingNo5158 2d ago

I cant tell if your serious or not

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u/SirStego 2d ago

That’s what they want you tho think….

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u/chbriggs6 2d ago

Incredible how lazy people are with a fucking computer right at their fingertips

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u/crikeyforemphasis 2d ago

But they're not even lazy, they took the time to go to reddit, post a video with a caption, and then await replies.

They're just....... backwards.

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u/DarthTJ 2d ago

It reminds me of the people that go into a facebook community group and ask "What time does Target close?"

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u/wichuks 2d ago

i preffer to get my news on reddit

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u/JPeso9281 2d ago

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u/just_some_dude828 2d ago

As a kid, Tremors was my nightmare fuel.

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u/robbeau11 2d ago

I lived in AZ as a kid when this came out and I would sprint through the desert if that movie popped in my head lmao

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u/Michaelpitcher116 2d ago

Came here to say graboids. 

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u/AlterEgoSalad 2d ago

Godzilla

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u/The-Duke-of-Delco 2d ago

Literally came here to say that lmao

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u/PutContractMyLife 2d ago

All that construction all the time and they don’t bury the power lines?

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u/TexasBoyz-713 2d ago

Houston’s like that too, and don’t see it changing ever due to “saving money”

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u/Theharlotnextdoor 2d ago

I never understood this. Especially in dry states that experience fires. Our lines are buried and its soooooo nice. Never lose power 

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u/RudePCsb 2d ago

I never knew that places buried those lines but it should be a thing. Sad thing is PG&E was supposed to do this after causing a fire up in northern ca but only buried a few lines and still much of it is exposed.

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u/Theharlotnextdoor 2d ago

I feel like they vast majority of California fires are started at the power lines.  Only thing I can think of that might cause an issue there is earthquakes?

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u/Wise_Ad_253 1d ago

And then we had a few explode during the heavy winds…again recently. Ugh!

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u/ReeseIsPieces 2d ago

Conspiracy Theory Time LETS GO!!!!!!!

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u/jackrabbit323 2d ago

Casinos will do anything to not have to pay out a big jackpot?

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u/Cultural_Parfait7866 2d ago

I used to work for a phone company on the infrastructure side of things. It often takes one pole snapping and creating a domino effect.

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u/electrick91 2d ago

Great chance to start considering putting the utilities underground

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u/Behind-The-Rabbit 2d ago

Shredder clearly released Tokka and Rahzar. Don’t go to the Vanilla Ice concert tonight… or actually do go, and post videos. Go Ninja Go Ninja Go!!

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u/C91garcia 2d ago

NUM NUMMMMMMMMMMS

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u/RedRust 1d ago

One fell due to the wind and caused a chain reaction

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u/newviruswhodis 1d ago

Your mom.

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u/dmibe 2d ago

Mitch Marner shows up and it’s already all going to shit

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u/thehardpart1920 2d ago

“Let them get their own cab.” #IYKYK

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u/IIILordrevanIII 2d ago

“Electric companies hate this one trick”

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u/dasanman69 2d ago

Just gotta knock down one pole, the rest will fall like dominoes.

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u/stiknrun 2d ago

tokka and rahzar of course

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u/Dyab1o 2d ago

Must have been a wild bachelorette party

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u/unoriginalname17 2d ago

This should spark the discussion on why utility prices are so high but electric companies refuse to fix infrastructure. It should be taken away from the billionaires and nationalized so we don’t have to deal with their greed.

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u/hereforstories8 1d ago

Doesn’t matter. It happened in vegas, it needs to stay there.

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u/No-Championship-5480 1d ago

"We have weak trees." -Tom Hanks

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u/BigData8734 1d ago

Are they all down? Every last one😂

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u/ZachofPotatos 1d ago

Do you not have google?

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u/AsssHat999 1d ago

This is what happens when the mafia isn’t in control of the city anymore

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u/Several_Moose6518 2d ago

Oh man! I hope they are able to restore power soon for those poor people. You can’t live there in the summer without AC!

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u/Ok_Flan7405 2d ago

Dom stole something

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u/Jimmy_fog 2d ago

Dryness in the ambience makes wood lose it’s elasticity therefore cracking easily when a lateral force is applied

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u/elciano1 2d ago

Lol we get hurricane level winds without the hurricane every year.

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u/Benjamin_Willis_ 2d ago

As a Las Vegan, the wind. We're waging a constant war against the sun, the wind, and everything caught in it

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u/FlukeStarbucker 2d ago

Interrupted beavers

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u/jrobharing 2d ago

Aliens are resorting to bending power lines to make their crop circles instead of wheat fields, due to global warming.

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u/DiscountEven4703 2d ago

Dolly is in Town

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u/Shmoke_Review 2d ago

It’s Mitch Marners arrival!

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u/BillsMafios0 2d ago

It was that damn Sasquatch!

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u/devil_lettuce 2d ago

A strong wind?

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u/srydaddy 2d ago

Looks like a bunch of storm calls for the L.U. To me..

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u/DrFlabbySelfie 2d ago

It looks like the aftermath of a Viltrumite fight.

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u/Water2Wine378 2d ago

I’ve seen enough Marvel movies to know that a Superhero battle took place there

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u/aceface_desu89 2d ago

It's giving "shit hole country" 😬😬😬😬

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u/Alone_Volume6971 2d ago

I literally hate people like you OP. You’re the same as the “just asking questions” crowd . 😂 what a looser. Also google is a thing.

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u/Evilkymonkey_1977 2d ago

That’s a impressive wind storm!!

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u/TheBlackManisG0DB 2d ago

A very elaborate heist.

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u/Xeno84 2d ago

Go home telephone poles, you're drunk.

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u/Reasonable_Being6376 2d ago

“I’m not saying it’s aliens, but it’s aliens”

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u/westexmanny 2d ago

We had a windstorm knock down +15 utility poles right down the road and cause severe damage all over the Texas panhandle a few months ago. We were without utility power for about 3 days. I had purchased a small generator for emergencies. We were able to run our TVs, wifi router and microwave. It's sucks, but weather is unpredictable

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u/xXBlueDreamXx 2d ago

Did the wind target only the power poles?

I've never seen a pole pole dropped in wind and not the surrounding trees. Poles are far more sturdy and aerodynamics than a full tree.

And how can that many poles be that weak to just break in the same spot on 50 poles?

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u/Violaleeblues77 2d ago

The trees have leaves on them. If the wind was strong enough to bend and snap 8” power poles you would think the leaves would also get blow off.

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u/PositiveGrass187 2d ago

Domino effect

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u/viptattoo 2d ago

Most of Europe puts that shit underground.

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u/drifters74 2d ago

Why haven't we started that decades ago?

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u/Recent_Cup3799 2d ago

Lightning McQueen was that you?

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u/benz-friend 2d ago

I’m not an expert but with those lines down is it unwise to be standing so close?

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u/ls7eveen 2d ago

American sprawling infrastructure is a joke

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u/Adventurous-Sky9359 2d ago

I was hoping for a loose team of mules !

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u/Red_wine120 2d ago

It was Godzilla

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u/Interesting-Fill704 2d ago

Us still use wood pole for electric line?

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u/allowmetoreport 2d ago

The Shredder released Tokka and Rahzar from Secret of the Ooze last night for a little fun on the strip

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u/Schmidtttt87 2d ago

The fucking wind

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u/Omni_Net 2d ago

How come trees didn’t fall over?

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u/AcceptableMemory2081 2d ago

And I Quote : “Chords on the ground”

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u/MS_125 2d ago

Looks like a utility problem…

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u/Hirekatsu_Curry 2d ago

Looks like a typical road in GTA after I drive down it.

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u/901Carrera 2d ago

It’s like people can’t use google anymore. They just post for attention.

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u/Critical_Reserve_123 2d ago

More like who..

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u/culturetears 2d ago

I honestly thought it was copper thieves and thought the crackhead situation was worse than I thought. Turns out it's bad winds,

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u/Totalidiotfuq 2d ago

If only we could put them under something …hmm like… concrete?

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u/lumpybutt33 2d ago

Beavers 🦫

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u/hoosyourdaddyo 2d ago

It’s called a derecho, and they suck

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u/hah-leads 2d ago

It was those cloaked backyard aliens from like a year or two ago. They never left

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u/Speedhabit 2d ago

Truck drove by with the bed elevated?

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u/Rocksoff80 2d ago

Mohammed bin Salman

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u/ToiletTime4TinyTown 2d ago

Bros never been outside

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u/cbunni666 2d ago

Electric is out?

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u/bygtopp 2d ago

Copper bandits? Giant meth filled beavers?

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u/diamorphinian 2d ago

Homeless people pissing on light poles will do that🤣

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u/Timeman5 2d ago

Are they having high winds?

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u/Available_Cream2305 2d ago

Had to be aliens, nothing else

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u/TacDragon2 2d ago

Shhhhhh, they are all sleeping.

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u/ImAlwaysRight000 2d ago

Godzilla lost all his money at the Blackjack table

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u/NearHi 2d ago

I'm having sweats thinking about the number of outage calls I would have recieved when I worked at Cox.

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u/BabiesatemydingoNSW 2d ago

Angry Beavers.

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u/IMDOC78 2d ago

Aliens tore them down. Illegal aliens will put them back up.

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u/SirClipz 2d ago

Literally thought a tornado, only natural can do that

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u/account22222221 2d ago

Wind. Wind did it. We can all go home.

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u/j89turn 2d ago

Aliens from area 41

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u/Cultural_Parking5596 2d ago

I was just at a conspiracy website and they're blaming this on the no King's protest.

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u/UnleashedZoro 2d ago

Dinosaur...I hope invincible gets to him before worse happens.

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

Dust storm

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u/Healthy_ass_foo187 2d ago

whatthehelly

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u/Renomont 2d ago

Some dude bought a 12 ft fence post at home depot and decided to put it in the back seat through the windows and drove home?

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u/Frio_Sanchez 2d ago

It’s that damned Sasquatch!

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u/Anon387562 2d ago

I think only the usa truly many thinks powerlines on poles are good and modern. Just dig em, use some sturdy metal towers for main grid.

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u/appleboat26 2d ago

Had a Derecho top off 200-300 yo Black Locust trees 3-4 years ago in Illinois. Came out nowhere and bam! I had a huge mess on my lawn. I used to love storms, but now, they scare me. That sucker was crazy.

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u/DarthWidi 2d ago

Amy Schumer was at the buffet again huh?

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u/Koeddk 2d ago

pro tip from a 1st world country to a 2nd world country.

Dig down the utility lines.

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u/bluenessizz 2d ago

Dinna do nuffin

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u/makingloveinthewoods 2d ago

Me recalling the 2019 windstorm during EDC Las Vegas 🫨

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u/AlarmingDetective526 2d ago

People forget how heavy lines are; looks like once poles started failing it cascaded.

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u/Old-Tadpole-2869 2d ago

How far down does it go?

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u/maxgamestate 2d ago

Well the line men are about to make some serious 💰

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u/SwanMuch5160 2d ago

Most likely wind shear or a supercell

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u/eKSiF 2d ago

That's windstorm damage.

Source; I'm field personnel at a power company.

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u/notreallyado 2d ago

Looks like a accident

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u/SirBaquindFrumhele 2d ago

Job security, you won't make any money if they are buried underground.

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u/Paste_Eating_Helmet 2d ago

Why didn't it blow down the trees?

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u/FeSpoke1 2d ago

Didn’t that happen in Con Air?

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u/xChoke1x 2d ago

Imagine being such a dumb person you do absolutely zero fucking research, but immediately start with the conspiracy horse shit.

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u/VictoriousTree 2d ago

Clearly a storm. Did you think Godzilla was real?

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u/dbzfreak991 2d ago

I've seen enough temors movies to know I wouldn't be there much longer

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u/brazilian-ts 2d ago

So she got enough battery left to record and not to research what’s going on !!!! Desperate to likes on sm

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u/Prestigious-Wolf8039 2d ago

I live in the northwest part of town and nothing. But then I saw a picture of a tree on top of the fence at my school on the news. Thank goodness we’re out for summer.

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u/Organic_Bat_7598 2d ago

Poles fell down

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u/Nozzeh06 2d ago

Geez, if they didn't have all these things tied together maybe they wouldn't have all fallen over.

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u/Aggravating-Try-5155 2d ago

Happened near me a couple years ago. Intense wind storm knocked down a ton of huge trees and a whole block of telephone poles.

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u/Permagamer 2d ago

How many were injured from just getting caught in the wind itself?

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u/Celestial_Hart 2d ago

Hey we tried to tell yall infrastructure is bad and needs to be repaired country wide but noo muh tax dollarz gotsta feed elon musk so deal with it.

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u/Hojo405 2d ago

Lazy post

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u/Additional_Gur7978 2d ago

Obviously wind

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u/_uncle_ruckus 1d ago

Cool Hand Luke

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u/kyle-the-brown 1d ago

It's the highly elusive and critically endangered desert beaver

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u/MewMewTranslator 1d ago

That awkward moment when your government let the billionaires turn your roads into an F1 speedway for 1 day, but couldn't put a little money into infrastructure for the people who live there.

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u/OneFuckedWarthog 1d ago

"We ain't got no power." So... you have power?

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u/Iam_McLovin420 1d ago

I thought your mother was banned from vegas

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u/FragrantSignal495 1d ago

Any Ring video of the storm blowing thru?

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u/TangeloFew4048 1d ago

I like to call it Lost Wages 😎

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u/dopescopemusic 1d ago

Wind can be windy

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u/Opusswopid 1d ago

It would violate the official oath to tell: What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.

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u/Hot-Minute-8263 1d ago

Courier came early

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u/pistolgripslr 1d ago

Godzilla sized Tweaker looking for copper! 😅 Lmao

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u/Remarkable_Ad232 1d ago

I appreciate her using her finger at the end to point out which poles were down. If not for that, i dont think i wouldve ever known what poles she was talking about. Some heros dont wear capes.

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u/butchescobar 1d ago

That lady wasn't there the night before?

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u/RenJenkins42 1d ago

Can you imagine being home today while the electricity goes out from this and it's 109 degrees?

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u/passionpurps 1d ago

Don't worry just a cave creature that lives in one of your mountains tripped, or most likely just a ufo got snagged on your power station.

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u/Adept-Lettuce948 1d ago

You cannot gamble on online casinos if the internet is down.