transcription: orange road sign: FIBER OPTIC CABLE DOES NOT CONTAIN COPPER. tweaker with a bubble and a shovel: "sounds like something a copper cable would say
transcription: orange road sign: FIBER OPTIC CABLE DOES NOT CONTAIN COPPER. tweaker with a bubble and a shovel: "sounds like something a copper cable would say
Wow, that’s fucked up.
In my area when you see something like that, you can call the utilities emergency line and they’ll send someone to fix it immediately. (even for low voltage/fiber data lines, just to stop the calls about it)
Around here, particularly in school; it’s drilled into your head that anything hanging from a powerline is an extreme hazard that needs to be addressed immediately. Maybe it’s dead, maybe it was never ‘live’; It’s up to the utility to determine that. You’re instructed to cordon off the area, keep people away, and call emergency services asap. (preferably their direct line, but 911 will handle it too)
Oh they respond to that stuff fast. But generic dimming lights, in a neighborhood built in the 1960s with old wiring… The frontline customer service staff almost surely thought it was generic complaining about something like a large power draw starting up in the home, like the AC kicking on and dimming the lights just a bit for a second. Not an actual power infrastructure issue.