08-30-2021 New Orleans, LA - Major Electrical Transmission Line in Mississippi River
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One of the main reasons the city of New Orleans is without power and could be for some time is this. This major electric transmission line that crosses the Mississippi River between Avondale and Harahan has fallen into the Mississippi River. You can see the crumpled tower with the lines stretching out into the current of the River. Besides main electrical lines there is extensive power poles and lines down everywhere. A daybreak flight down a stretch of Hwy 90 west of New Orleans shows what electrical crews will be dealing with over the coming weeks.
Whoever strung up the stop lights deserves a pay raise. There pretty much the only thing still hanging on.
Never thought about that- you’re right!
they are closer to the ground. winds speeds are a lot higher at 200 ft from the ground
@@dknowles60 Streets signs are toppled over. Water mains are busted. Bushes are shredded. Roads collapsed and curbs pushed around. None of which are 200 feet high.
@@freedomrings.0007 he's comparing the stop lights to this transmission tower..
@@GhostlyGhille great comment 🤣 lol
painting rust doesn't make the problem go away this video proves that
seems the lines were holding the tower up man look at the rust.
It's because it is the main feed into N.O. You can't just turn the power off and replace it.
Yeah, long ass span there too!!
@@MrWolfSnack you would think there would be a way to reroute power to do repairs. Would Entergy be responsible for those lines or is some else?
they rather insurance pay to get it fixed then pay for its themselves
If that's the only way power gets to the city without being able to reroute it they have more serious issues than this.
The rust and rot on that fallen tower speaks volumes about where the real money goes too. Not to keep the stuff running nope upwards to the top and the shareholders..but rest assured the taxpayers next year will see another fat hike in power costs for * unforseen upkeep*.
This ^^^^^^^
I see surface rust like you do on every other steel structure outside thats years old but I definitely didn't see any rot that would take a closer inspection, someone said they recorded very high winds not sure how high sooner or later something goin to give
Don’t bet on it. Louisiana has the lowest electricity rates in the country, by far, year after year. Strong demand from the oil processing and petrochemical industries keeps rates low for all.
They put a lot of money into the levees.
You have to understand how fast things degrade out there. That tower may only be 4 yrs old.
Not having power will make the clean up and rebuild so much harder.
Not likely. Hence linemen being dispatched when there's no power on and they show up and restore the lines. Same crews erect new metal skeletal power towers like this also. And don't need power to build it.
@@thefringeminorityreport4797 I was thinking about the poor home and business owners trying to put their lives back together.
I would like to know what genious thought it was a great idea to power the entire hurricane prone city of New Orleans with four cables strung in the air over the Mississippi river.
Only the smartest of the smart! He says sarcastically.
There looking for thinkers ,they definitely don't have funding to go under water ,probably no choice but over ,lasted 16 years
A man
I thought our Tax money was being used correctly 🤔 ..
@@glorianajenkins1963 hahaha
Hard to imagine the force of nature sometimes, just shows how quick lives can be turned upside down forever in a matter of seconds!
Hard to imagine the force of God? You might want to crack open the Bible.
Structural Failure due to rust. Significant vertical rust stains are seen on the concrete piers the tower was bolted to. Additionally, surface rust is visible on much of the tower. Surface rust itself it not necessarily bad, but when rust penetrates critical joints and related hardware, it can weaken the structure. The joints are the weak link in this tower, not the beams themselves. At least 10 large cargo loading cranes next to the river are seen still standing vertically. No such cranes were blown down nor any of the cranes leaning significantly. While the tower did have a significant load on it from the cables and the crains had none, if only the wind was a factor in blowing down the tower, one would expect to see at least a lean in one of the cranes.
The investigation of the Minneapolis I35W bridge collapse concluded significant rust in one or more steel bridge joints (not the beams) triggered the collapse. Just like the Memphis interstate bridge issue (not caused by rust) inspectors either didn't catch the issue or the issue was recognized but ignored/delayed by management.
Thanks for pointing this out. I'm looking at this askance. I'm thinking---was there a tornado too, to knock this thing down? Because I don't believe that 50 mph winds ought to be strong enough to crumple it up like this.
What power company owns this transmission line? What about the other tower? Preventative maintenance (painting, general upkeep) would (most likely) have prevented this catastrophe
I Said the Same When they Show the Foundation Rust stains Down the Base...Glad someone else seen that..I Worked on Towers for Years...Good Eye...
Most transmission towers across the US were erected in the 1950's, 60's and 70's. Moreover, they are generally not repainted or galvanized very often, if ever. Utilities are more interested in profitability and their regulators more interested in a green agenda, so maintenance or replacement is not a priority. Surprising this doesn't happen more often.
Steel usually fails at the connections, rusted bolts, except the bridge in Memphis that sheered in two at a beam near connections.
the local coverage has been flapping gums about this all morning. finally lsm brings us the real coverage.
the local news coverage like wfaa is truly horrible and corrupt
@@jokers7890 They all are
No- no they are not.
@@boatymsboatface3929 yes they are stop listening to the talking heads they are bullies and manipulators. This is under democrat presidency don't expect transparency or anything to be done
@@bradleysimpson9819 oh thank you for telling me what to do or not do. How did I make this far in life without your guidance? I thought I could discern for myself what is BS and what is not by using my brain and life experience but I guess not. I eagerly await your next command
Thanks for the awesome drone footage!
Prayers for New Orleans💙🙏🙏
God is so angry, He may send a swarm of alligators into the city, to eat the souls of those who have committed sin.
YES.AMEN 🙏
New Orleans doesn’t need prayers, they need to repent.
@@cls90 God save the world from itself. Sympathy to all those of Louisiana and the rest of the great country, the United States, who have been affected by this terrible weather event. 🇺🇸 Paul, Ireland.
Wow- I’ve never seen a tower of power flattened like this before. People don’t realize the power of wind. A breeze can blow a long gate with half inch pickets shut.
it happans all the time. in april 2011 the TVA lost 200 miles of power lines to a F5 torando. it took the TVA 2 weeks to fix 200 miles of power lines. now that IDA is leaving TN the TVA will be sending more line me to La
The good that can come from this is to rebuild better.
Good thing we have that infrastructure bill.
This will happen when a hurricane comes up through there. But they'll tell you don't worry, we'll rebuild. This way we can do it again the next time it comes through. And again. And again. And again...
idk about you but I think 16 years and the levees didn't fail this time.. so there for it did work. this is a whole different problem for NOLA
Correct, rich people in LA are running a racket on all of the working class people there. It's a f-in complete joke and time for a revolution.
@@jokers7890 When I moved to jefferson parish back in the late seventies i drove over the huey p. long( or narrow bridge as we used to call it lol,) there was a crew continually working on the bridge sanding off the rust and repainting. seems to me the money for that sort of needed upkeep has dried up. where did it go... in the pockets of corruption is my best guess. This was mostly a democratic state back then.Govenor Edwards was a horrible crook and not ashamed to admit it. Coming from Regan's California, it always amazed me everyone found him 'humorous and utterly charming'
fantastic camera and flying, so sad for the people living there......this looks catastrophic
Time to replace those smaller wooden poles with concrete ones like some they have in Florida
The main transmission lines are steel structures- that's what fell! The wooden poles are still standing!
@@genehasenbuhler2594 Well, there where hundreds of wooden poles down in the video...
Concrete poles have steel rebar inside providing the strength and they then rust out in the salt sea air.
@@genehasenbuhler2594 i was meaning the smaller lines along the road later in the video, not the mains
sorry about thst
@@rsdna9698 yes but they were focused on the pile of steel that used to be the recieving tower on the Louisiana side of the Mississippi river- without that there is no need for wooden or other poles! That is the main line into Louisiana! Without it there is no power!
That must be a 3 week job at least, good luck hope they have access to everything they need for fast rebuild
Given the shortages and supply chain issues of nearly everything over the past year I bet we'll see significantly longer repair times.
Try three months. You have to get there and purchase the materials to rebuild all of the power poles. The levies are out, and the bridges have problems. Once again, greed rules the day, and this is the cost.
NO...JUST GO TO THE RADIO SHACK STORE AND PICK UP A REPLACEMENT...NOT...GOING TO TAKE A LONG TIME...HOPE THEY CAN DO A BACKFEED OF THE POWER OR IT IS GOING TO BE HELL
@@wendellwhite5797 How is greed causing this?
@@kmp101 Politicians taking the gubment cheese and keeping it.
The breakers blew at that sub station immediately. They will rig up something temporarily within a few days. Here in PA a tornado took a 200kv tower down, and they made a temporary tower until a crew built a new one.
Did they have to temporary something accross a huge river? lol
@@rsdna9698 There are always 2 paths feeding every sub station. They will route the power around that line.
Did they also have to rebuild every power pole within 30 miles?
@@2020HotShotTruckingLLC You can have 100 paths, but if you need power to the other side of a river there's only one way to get it there, cross it.
@@rsdna9698 Every feeder is redundant by design. If a feeder enters a sub station from the north, there will be one from the south as well. The line across the river feeds the sub station shown in the clip, and there will be one coming from a different direction. Both may well be down. Look the the power lines from google maps satellite view. Most of the national electric grids are 500KV and 230KV. There will be at least 4 paths in / out of every power plant...like NE, NW, SE and SW.
Feel bad for those people who will not have power for a while. That heat and humidity will just add insult to injury......
and Covid
@@jnasty00 Yes! How could I forget that....
Heat, humidity, the virus, maybe hungry gators too.
OH NO
@@jnasty00 bruh, nobody's gonna be thinking about Covid when survival is the name of the game.
Thanks very much for posting! Not only lost critical electric service but now have to deal with navigational hazards in that section of the river. Thanks again and be safe 🙏
Power crews……..PLEASE be careful and may God protect you brave men🙏🏼
Wow. Excellent footage. thanks.
Ww2 rebuilding required. Oh, those poor people. I pray for everyone.
Drones sees all :( Bless them all.
I am Swiss but I lived a couple of years in Thailand. The electric grid in the US looks much more like Thailand.
It is different depending on region. That part of the country has a relatively old infrastructure. New communities, Florida and Texas use concrete and underground systems.
Thank you R . S . I have never been to Thailand , now I Know .
I live in FL near the gulf and the last couples yrs they've been upgrading the electric grid. Not only just for weather concerns but also the fact the economic boom is insane right now and the current system wouldn't be able to handle it. I've also seen major upgrades along parts of the ocean side.
I was in Hurricane Laura and Delta. We were out of power for 5 weeks, had power for 9 day's and lost power again for 2 weeks. In times like these I started to appreciate everything that I take for granted each day, like having power and running water. Delta brought a 11ft flood to where I live. Calcasuie river. Had water standing for 2 weeks, no power, no running water. Only way in and out was per boat and every 2 day's in boat to get gas got old but we had to do what we had to do to make it. Do to living in a flood zone we were on our own. It sucks but mother nature don't care. I feel for everyone impacted by this storm and my heart and prayers goes out to all. I just wished they wouldn't put all their eyes on New Orleans it self and I don't mean that in a bad way. Houma is a City too.
Lines in the water, man that would definitely kill you if energized..😲
Hey there 😀!!!
Sadly went thru this a number of times down here in Southeast Texas! My prayers with you!
I mean the amount of rust is why that failed it should have been delt with long before this hurricane 🌀
Great pictures! Thank you!
Katrina has this beat hands down. This is no where near the damage. This will be fixed in a few weeks.
That tower is the biggest power issue they have. The crews will come out and cut it up with a torch and the Choppers will lift the pieces out.Then the preassembled pieces of the new tower will be lowered into place by the same choppers and bolted together. Once that's done the linemen can start with lifting the high tension cables back into place.
Most electric towers are good to 115-125MPH winds, but this does not take into account the stress of the next tower failing. Don't know what the winds were in that area but probably that level. You can build these to sustain 150MPH winds and when it's critical infrastructure that's what you should do. Ain't cheap, just worth the cost.
Power companies have disaster insurance to cover most of the losses and the general thinking is that it's cheaper to insure and replace than to upgrade those towers. The insurers allow this because they make a profit anyway. Both (and all) these expenses get passed down to consumers so if we're paying for it, we should get to decide what is allowed and we should be calling for 'best practices' as a standard instead of 'should be sufficient and costs less'.
that's gonna take months
It'll be 3-5 weeks until most of this grid is back up and running. Many Linemen will retire off this storm.
Oh no, that means no coffee for the residents unless they build a campfire. I couldn't do cleanup without coffee!!!!
Why are not ordinary power lines dug down in densely populated areas? (Not high voltage of course.) All these wooden poles blown down EVERY TIME... And after the storm everything is replaced with the same sh*t again... Can't anything be changed? It must be very good business for some companies to do the build up - time and time again. And the customers have to pay dearly. Greetings from Sweden (without huge amount of wooden poles :)
There are two separate crossover points around here. This one is (I believe) the line upstream of the Huey P. Long Bridge, but there's another line crossing the river downstream of the bridge.
GOD BLESS USA AMIN AMEN ALLELUIA NEW ORLEANS USA IN THE WORLD
It's called New Orleans because Old Orleans keeps getting destroyed in floods and storms every other year.
Every year it's a " New" Orleans. We get to rebuild every time. He says sarcastically.
SHOCKING 😱
Hope power can be restored in record time. God bless Louisiana.
Sweet a lot of metallurgist armchair quarterbacks chiming in on the tower failure. Wind gusts were to 180 what you expect?
Well, one of those towers fell and one didn't! Has to be a reason. Also, it doesn't take an expert to see the rust covering that tower and common sense tells us that is not good. No different than that Condo that fell in Florida. Lack of upkeep will eventually catch up with you.
Wind gusts there weren’t THAT high. However, in hurricanes just like in tornadoes it’s common to see one identical structure next to another destroyed where the other is fine. It depends upon the winds.
Is this a 'Single Path of Failure' tower (no other paths into the area)? Do the planners not consider that only 1 tower or putting both next to each other puts the Local grid at risk?
And look at that SPAN. That tower seems awful wimpy considering storm loads. "But my power is cheap" (Texas, now NOLA)
No, there are multiple other inrows for power in NOLA. They just happen to be in a worst-case scenario where the winds blanketed the city on both sides and were powerful enough to knock ALL of them out in one go, instead of one side of the city or etc. They will probably be able to get the other mains online fairly quickly if the towers and other major infrastructure is intact. At least the reason people in NOLA don't have power is because of a hurricane that demolished the entire area versus CA where the government put so much pressure on utilities to go green and shut down NG and coal plants that their generation capacity isn't nearly enough for everyone!
The only question I have is how that totally corroded pylon managed to survive until this hurricane. Looks like it should have fallen down more than a year ago just through the complete lack of any maintenance.
Surprise one of the 22 barges that came loose didn't take those lines out
Those barges came loose way down the river by me in St Bernard
I am so sorry that happened to them 😞
Easy to see it was not maintained
It always amazes me how someone can be there right away to film, however it takes an extra day to few days before anyone shows up to work on rebuilding.
It takes a tremendous amount of planning and collaboration when damage is done on a scale like that. It's going to take a couple days at least just to assess it all.
You HAVE to have scouts out in the field first to determine where the most damage is and which damage affects the most customers first. Otherwise you'd have crews running amok and working some lines that couldnt get energized until the main line or substation is repaired anyway, while if they had started with repairing or clearing the substation or main line then 60-80% of the people that that line served could be brought online first.
Planning. Do some research and educate yourself before you post dumb comments
RUclips income is a powerful motivator.
I know the reasons. I mean I'm just surprised with today's technology that the process is not as quick as it can be.
Looks like a double circuit of 138kV went into the Mississippi. That carries a lot of power for Entergy. Tough to switch around a roadblock like that. Wow!
Ummm build it stronger? Probably will cost more to rebuild than to have built it better in the first place. Hurricanes have been in that area before electric lines were constructed.
Looks like there wasn't enough rust to hold the tower up.
Last hurricane we were out of power for 3weeks , now they are saying it could take up 2 months to be back up and running
That is messed up
One pitiful pole to hold up all of that long span of wire going across the river.
Looks like the rust quit holding.
Other coastal state i lived in replaced the transmission towers. Salt water ruins everything. Should have been a no brainer. What is lower than a no brainer maintenance job ?
How sad powerlines across the Mississippi river. It's going to be a while. Blessings for everyone.
Hello
Surprised a work boat wasn't stuck in the lacings!!!
Its better to be prepared as not prepared in this situation
Wow it landed way over there😲
Sadly, this heap of rusted junk goes along with what Texas just experienced it the freeze during the winter. Power companies in Texas are not regulated, guessing the same must be true in Louisiana. Frustrating and then some. Looks as if the last two additions were just place on rusted metal.
rust never sleeps
The tower was all rotted out. What did they expect
That tower looks like it was a poorly maintained pile of rust and corroison. No wonder it collapsed.
All the damage will take months if not several years to finish this mess.
You should use your drone to monitor the crews in the field at the places where the power got cut off.
great footage!
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Surprised it stood this long
The last minute of the video shows dozens of utility poles down in a quarter of a mile or so. The rebuild is going to take months.
The mobile home survived without a scratch but the towers designed to withstand 175 mile an hour winds were blown over, go figure.
Those towers should absolutely not have fallen down. Poor engineering and bad maintenance. Fail.
How about the cranes in background by the river bank still standing.
The amount of rust shows it should have been replaced long ago !!
This tower looks like the many towers which collapse during Hurricane Laura, there were at least 8-10 of these down near our house last year.
Wow! I want a drone like that one! 👍👍
Look at the rust and corrosion on the tower, no wonder it failed.
That's about 600,000 volts of jiggedy jiggedy fun rat dar...Step or touch that, eeee dawgy...Mike Jackson won't have crap on your "Moonwalk " technique...😳😳😳!!!
Hmm! The old neglected poorly maintainanced tower finally fell
Can you imagine if dentist's, only did fillings without cleaning out the cancer first.
I had a dentist do exactly that, on purpose. That is the Mexican way. He came to San Diego to rip people off.
THAT'S going to take awhile, to fix....😲
Between the rust and the weather the power comp6is putting to much money in there damm pockets they know hot hurricane season is every year but do nothing to prevent this to happen
That's gonna take some time to fix. All that boudain gonna go to waste 😭😭
Methinks that the power will be out for a while. Well at least it will cone in by another route. Still there is a lot of infrastructure to fix.
Rusty like it was already scraped. Time to look at the books, someone has been paid to maintain and did not.
Gotta pay the corrupt Wall Street hookers first. Then if there's any money left the infrastructure might be maintained but probably won't be.
When a tornado hit our big lines in AR in 2008 it took about two weeks before we got power back. That’s when I learned about double male extension cords (Kill your main breaker!!!!!!!). Stay safe!
so much for redundancy. these folks gonna be without power for a month.
Seems like it would be smarter to bury the electrical wires underground but what do I know
AND WHY ARE WE STIll USING TREES FOR POLES??? THERE MUST OF BEEN 100 POLES DOWN.
warm salty air will speed up rust. it should not be a surprise to see this.
It is time to activate TESLA energy! No more poles or lines.
or underground cabling
Where's Tony Stark when you need him!
@@Kalastajahml the water table is too high New Orleans is below sea level.
Tesla energy? Do you mean a battery pack in every home? And how exactly do you plan to recharge all those battery packs? Every Tesla vehicle has to be recharged from the power grid!
OH MY LORD!!!😳🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Every passing minute, those electrical wires within the Mississippi River are becoming more corroded.
That is not new Orleans that is the old Avondale ship yard and bariouse bar .bridge city la
I don’t understand why they don’t use the many bridges in the New Orleans area to carry the transmission lines across the river.
With the level of voltage in those lines you want plenty of clearance between them and places people are. How far away from each other the lines are/were on those towers gives a sense of how much clearance is needed. Adding the electric line structure to existing road bridges will add structural weights and motion stresses to the bridge structures which were not designed and built for those types of loads and stresses; adding them would guarantee failure of the existing road bridge, maybe later, maybe sooner.
That looks like a radio tower. I did hear that some of the 1.5 mv towers did go down and that's bad news. I guess it was power after all.
looks like a radio tower but if you watch you will see the electric insulators on the top of the tower lol
Yep. Not going home anytime soon.
Put the lines underground where they belong!!!!
Tower looks 100yr old
Underground lines in Europe...