Teen Survives 7,200-Volt Electrocution, Tragically Dies When The Power Turns Off
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Lewis Wheelan got seriously injured trying to maintain power lines. Electricity nearly killed him, and thanks to modern medical technology, electricity was able to save him as well. Then, on August 14th 2003, in a matter of minutes, 50 million people were without power, and in some areas, it wouldn’t come back for days.
The Northeast blackout of 2003 was the biggest blackout in US history. At the end of the disaster, almost 100 people lost their lives, and for Lewis, it was just the beginning of the end. Let’s get into it!
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This guy was SO unlucky. Sounds like he had so much potential but it was all wasted because of freak accidents.
Sad.
I can't help but admire your (likely unintentional) pun as I agree with you.
I think his death could easily have been avoided. They knew his condition and never drawn the conclusion that he could overheat in an apartment without a working AC. But yeah, that accident is not something that happens every day.
@@Hampus_006 It was better that he kicked the bucket considering that he was living a fate worse then death.
Yeah potential difference, that's what led to the accident, take care around transmission lines, you don't have to come into contact to get a shock.
As someone who lives in Southern Ontario, when we have to do our yearly safety and the like, he IS the most used example on safety and why we put so many fail safes into action.
Out of curiosity, in these examples, do they tell the whole background?
And what do they do if wood falls onto the lines?
@@tylern6420 IDK, I ain't apart of that industry.
As someone who lives in ohio i can confirm what he is confirming
Yearly safety?
This will be, forever, a current event
Pun intended
so shocking
Naa Don’t do him dirty like that
It's happening????? CURRENTLY????
Pun of da video
My mother passed away due to power outage. During that time, the machine supplying oxygen to her where i have it at home stopped operating for 30mins. She had terminal lung cancer and that caused insufficient oxygen…. She ultimately succumbed to it. 😢
I’m sorry for your loss. It’s truly awful. I hope you’re doing okay
I am so sorry you lost her in such a terrible way. Nobody should have to experience that
@@tenaciouszebra5691 It took me 3 years to start overcome the grief but I’m doing better now. Thank you for the kind words.
@@Panda-cute it was tough but at least i managed to tell her i love her before she breathed her last…
Sorry for your loss I hope you can move on from that pain.
My grandfather went through a similar incident. Before I was born, he had parked under a power line that had been scraped bare from tree brush. The power line sagged, touching his vehicle, and when he touched it- he exploded. He lost both of his arms, and nearly all of the skin on his body. On the way to the E.R. he died twice, and then died a third time in the E.R. Fortunately with a lot of care, he lives to this day, with a prosthetic hook arm to help him get through his daily tasks! He also overcame the emotion caused by the incident and jokes about it, as well as lives a happy life! :) If you're curious, he also used to be a wrestler by the name of Rusty Roberts! Unfortunately, due to this incident, he is no longer able to pursue this career. However, he still shares exciting memories from the high points of his career.
what do you mean by "he died twice, and then died a third time"
@@NzLes He blacked out three times, is prob what he meant
@@PJ183 his heart stopped
Please, please tell me your grandpa was adequately compensated for his life-altering injuries. Did he sue?
@@NzLeshis heart stopped thrice, I assume
I live in Northeast Ohio. I was 7 years old in 2003, and I still remember that blackout vividly. I’ll never forget it for as long as I live. We were without power for days, and seeing Downtown Cleveland completely dark with the exception of a few streetlights running on backup power was insane. We lost most of our food in the house, and a takeout restaurant that had backup power was all we ate until the power was restored. However I had no idea that it was in multiple states. I hope this never happens again
only in ohio 💀
@@PupleKoolAidInDaHood ong
Yoo Ohio
I was born in 2008, so I’d have to ask my mom about the event
And hey, on the bright side, at least at night, you could see the stars a lot better thanks to the lack of light pollution
Thankfully I was in a situation as a kid in the Greater Toronto Area that the blackout didn't harm me or my family, but it really sucks that so many people where effected by the 2003 blackout, some more so than others like buddy here.
While for many this was just a major inconvinece, for a chunk of people this was a death sentance.
omg I remember that
In case anyone is wondering why he needed the AC to live its because skin grafts meant he could not sweat.
I figured that was it.
What happen if he sweat? I really-really want to know, Please don't just answer is dead.
@@nehemialalang7878 i think he couldnt sweat as in physically incapable to sweat. Sweating is crucial to cool down your body, hence the needs of AC.
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Sometimes you lose your sweat glands when you get large skin grafts. His body literally could not produce sweat.
@@nehemialalang7878 Sweating cools the body down. He couldn't sweat so he overheated and then dead.
So that was the source of the power outage…. I remember that. So sorry that he had to go through that, and those who passed from the outage.
The guy cutting a tree in a hot day where he shouldn't have. Good intentions...
I'm kidding, it was not that, it was the heat.
@@monad_tcp it was a software bug
Why be sorry? You're not involved, *are you?*
@@kosherre6243 As in being sorry or having some sympathy for those who went through it. You clearly missed it.
@@triggeredcat120 i see. Sorry, I never really understood why people used a term for apologies for something they've never committed.
In Germany most of our power lines are under ground. The only power lines that are not buried are the high voltage lines. They are really high and there are no trees under it (if it crosses a forest, a line of trees will be removed to make space). This helps to prevent problems like that.(ok in small areas there are some over ground lines that are not high voltage but these are not really common and don't supply huge areas). Also having an AC in Germany isn't that common. Stores have it but most homes don't
@Uncle Hoax wir AC I mean air conditioning.
It’s the same in Sweden. Hardly any lines above ground these days other than the very big high power lines, and like Germany, they’re without trees around them to prevent any branches from getting onto the lines. I honestly can’t even remember when I last saw a power line except for the one above the railroad 🤔 And like Germany, air conditioning isn’t all that common here except for in stores and public buildings. Some people have it in their homes if they live in a single family house, but it’s just not a thing in apartment buildings. I live in an apartment and just have a floor fan, all I need in summertime even on really hot days. Our houses are built both to keep warm in winter and cool in summer thanks to good insulation
Powerlines should never be built above trees to begin with, it should be standard procedure to chop down all trees in areas where power lines are being built regardless of cost and those areas to be kept well maintained for years to come.
@@tjorvegro9651 it doesn't work in the USA do to how much soil diversity we have and a lot of it is black jack silt and red clay which doesn't tolerate underground lines well. That's before we get to the granite and other bed rock that sometimes even dynamite can't demolish it as it's that thick. We also have more tectonic plates to worry about as there's one on the east coast that when it does cause earthquakes it is felt all the way up in Canada even it's minor after shocks are 3.0 or higher quakes there's been 3 from it in 5 months
@@ayajade6683 There is no plate boundary on the easy coast, the reason why shockwaves travel farther in the mid and north + east central portions of the continent is because the crust is older and denser, hence the vibrations travel farther.
I was 9 during the black out. I remember a lot but what sticks out the most is how being indoors was torture because of how hot and humid it was. I will never forget when the power came on and how hearing the AC ramp back up brought us all back to life.
I remember that blackout quite well. I was 10 and I was at a daycamp with my friends when it happened. At that time kids didn't have phones to contact family members so communication was really difficult... Not to mention commuting to and from!
Ah the days when a 16 year old with a cellphone was unconscionable
@@Sammysapphira I had a nokia brick.
@@Sorrowdusk even having that brick felt so fancy.
@@Sammysapphira"Where do these random words keep coming from?!" - *Me, 1 second ago*
even if you had phones it wouldn't work because cell towers were down
In addition to the tips provided about keeping the freezer & fridge closed, it can also be helpful to keep a large jug of frozen water in the freezer. It keeps the freezer cool during an extended outage, and when it eventually melts you'll have drinking water.
This covered both the technicalities of power transmission to the human experiences on the receiving end. Truly wonderful.
I have to imagine that near catastrophes happen pretty regularly, and we don't know about them because our grid workers handle them so well. Really makes me appreciate them.
I remember this. I was 9. It was a wild several days living primitively. Luckily we had a gas stove so we could still cook. My mom didn’t realize how huge the outage was and was almost out of gas. She NEVER let’s get gas get that low and didn’t then. The one time she happened to the blackout happened. No gas stations were open. At all. It was wild
Imagine getting paid 10 dollars an hour for something as risky as that
isnt that like lower then minimum wage
@Parker Stevens it probably before covid when 8 dollars was Minimum wage
pEoPlE dOnT wAnT tO wOrK!
@@ps92809 Minimum wage in 2003 was something like 7 bucks.
@@piperbird7193 $7.25 yep
If you are really paranoid about being stuck with no way to communicate with people long distance; get a landline phone. They use a completely independent power source, and the power required is well under 10%. This makes the biggest issue being landlines getting jammed up due to high traffic, but since landlines are so rare, it’s like a 8 lane highway with no cars.
nowadays the landlines use Fibre Optic digital data in Australia
but in my country the government decided to go cheap and not run fibre to each home on the mainland. So if the power goes the home Modem goes down that coverts digital to analogue in your home to feed to the phone and the repeaters and multiplexors in the street go down as well.
That is if the network provider doesn't cause a 12 hour outage from a software update that went wrong ! or someone doesn't dig up the telco cables causing a major outage
I remember being in the basement when the power went out. Luckily, my neighbourhood was back up in about 24h. That night I had never seen so many stars living in the city. The story of Lewis is so tragic 😢. Thank you for including the advice on preparing for future emergencies. Hopefully this will help save at least one life in the future.
RIP Lewis.😞+ All the people who died in the 2003 Blackout.😲😞
these emojis dont really fit here
@@katranian same energy as RIP Lewis 💀💀💀
Boo hoo NOBODY cares about them anymore.
@@Mario87456 But it's history!
@@Mario87456 i do cares, and if u dont, why click this video in the first place
I used to sell electrical services door to door in Ireland. One of the questions I had to ask when switching someone was if anyone in the home was medically dependent on electrical devices and pass that on to eirgrid. The idea being that in the event of a power cut, emergency teams could deploy portable generators to tide people over until power was restored or transferred them to hospitals which have redundant power systems. I’m surprised the US and Canada don’t have similar systems and laws in place.
1. The U.S. and Canada are HUGE. 2. The politicians in the U.S. are more interested in keeping money for themselves rather than helping the people who have to fork over taxes every year.
I am pretty sure that only applies to planned power outages.
Ireland is smaller than a lot of the states in the US. That would be impossible.
I appreciate your videos a lot! They keep me aware and on my toes with situations I never thought of, and are very direct and to the point.
The voltage does not go through his body, the current goes through his body. The voltage goes 'across' his body. Voltage is dropped across a resistance, capacitance, or inductance, not through it. Voltage is the difference in potential energy between two points created by the separation of charges. The electric field created by this separation of charge is what accelerates electrons (current) through his body. Its like how a gravitational field accelerates a mass down a hill, an electric field (related to the voltage) accelerates the charges through materials. Still, its a bit more complicated than that, but I am admittedly nitpicking your video.
No one cares about the verbiage
@@Bennacho Its not the verbiage, its the difference between two of the main variables in ohms law; V=IR. The variables in question being V (voltage) and I (current). R is for for resistance, although capacitive and inductive resistance is more complex than that and they have to do with the frequencies of the harmonics that make up the signal. The variables are fundamentally different well beyond verbiage. Although as I previously stated, yes I am being nitpicky.
Also I should say, transmission lines relay alternating current. AC is a lot more dangerous than DC to humans. I could write like 100 pages on this and still not scratch the surface. It has to do with how alternating current conducts between a conductor, insulator, and ground.
If anyone is curious, AC is more dangerous than DC because the stray capacitance in our body effectively makes our resistance much smaller, making a lot more current pass through our body to ground.
Getting my dad a CPAP power outage alarm for Christmas. Not worth losing someone over a power outage. And although most on CPAP can uncomfortably sleep without it sometimes, it's quite risky, especially if you are older.
Where can I get one for my grandma thank u
@@-BitGaming-eq5cl Better google it, kid.
I have sleep apnea but don’t use a cpap it’s to annoying
@@BLUE_OCTOBER-TRIX read the paper on treating sleep apnea reducing all cause mortality. (Or don't. It's your life honestly.)
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I'm curious why they didn't have the ac unit setup to an backup generator in the first place because of the condition he was in.
And also why didn't he have anyone living nearby? Why didn't they go to the neighbors, get their contact info just in case? Why didn't he have family living with him? He had 3 missing limbs. Why did they let him live alone and depend on some organization or whatever that was? If it was free, the chances of it not being reliable on a crisis multiplies. So many questions.
I'm sure they had their reasonings but this really was preventable. If they had people living nearby, with him or had neighbors info, they could've driven him to the nearest hospital at the very least, since they have generators and air-conditioners running.
What i was thinking
@lucyk.5163 it's almost as of they wanted him dead for some reason.
Sad but very possible.
@@lucyk.5163 and why didn't they call a ambulance to go there
@@lucyk.5163 or a police officer
My sincere condolences for this young man and his family. I worked for 3 different power and light companies here in TX. The grid is a redundant system and barring an actual break in the transmission line or catastrophic substation failure the system has many fail safes which kick substations off line to save the Gen station the shedding of the load which is safer than gambling on tripping a Gen station. What occurred in Feb of 2020 was incompetence on ercots part. I understand how the grid functions as it was my job to get substations back on line. That's why brown outs are more favorable than total blackouts .
It’s very sad irony that one of the factor that lead to blackout is similar to what make Lewis needed electricity.
My brother was an electrician in the US Navy & says that most of the electrical science in this video is bunk. Either way, my heart goes out to those affected & especially those who died. 😥😥
The way he said A/C uses reactive power, while most other appliances use real power, meanwhile showing a fridge for real power was a great one. As if a fridge isnt A/C in a box.
I wouldn't say bunk. It's a too simplistic and quick overview, sure, but conceptually it's ok enough.
I wouldn't call it bunk, but I would call it a rather poor job of dumbing down a complicated topic. I get it, as non-technical people's eyes will just glaze over if they start talking about phase shifts, power factors etc.
@@stabileseitenlage Yeah , I caught that too.
That power out was rough. I was stuck in another city without a vehicle and I was 17. By the time I got home by several buses and after many hours of delays, I was absolutely dehydrated. I bought some water from a subway station but that was not enough in that heat.
I'm glad that your okay though. Dehydration is often so often overlooked, and can have deadly consequences.
Thank you 😊
Yeah that blackout mess me up for life. I'm always worried the power is going to go out.
Wow Blackouts are life threatening ? In my country blackouts happened Continuously. sometimes 2 days or sometimes 13 to 5 hours daily.
@@Marvelouse A lot of people don't have the proper means to heat and or cook for themselves if the power goes out. They have lived their entire lives with power, a lot of houses are set up with electrical heating sources. People have it too easy.
@Icewear Aiden Wrang lol . I think there are many countries that experience the same
@@Gatorade69 Well , even if they dont have electricity from the government , I thought that if they were rich enough to rely entirely on it , they were rich enough to get an emergency generator or something
@@Marvelouse I'm American except where I live is rural and we are always losing power. However for a lot of people in the cities they don't really think about that sort of thing. It's more of a thing in rural areas. I'm all set up for if the power goes out but millions of Americans aren't.
7:16 Fridges also contain a compressor and a fan so it's no different to an A/C
Instead of unplugging everything, just switch off your main breaker and check the street lights for power.
I'm gonna be honest; if my survival was entirely reliant on one thing that needed to be powered by electricity, I'd get an extremely reliable backup generator. Maybe a backup generator for the backup generator.
I already have a fuel-powered generator and a solar-powered generator, and that's just because I have anxiety issues.
Excellent points. I live in earthquake and wildfire land. I did prepare our "Ditch Bag" (including pet needs) in a wheelie trash bin stored in the shed. Easy to drag out and toss in the truck.
Wow lol, being a kid during the blackout was kinda fun honestly, it was like camping but at home. I remember the exact moment the power went out that day because it was so hot outside, we decided to go in and watch a movie and halfway through Like Mike everything shut off and my dads response was "its too hot for tv." 🤣
xD
The alarm notifies the controller of any problem they might encounter, except apparently the issues of the alarms malfunctioning or knocked out. great design
That power outage...I remember where I was and where it happened; I was in the middle of it, and lived only about 30 minutes away from where the root of the outage was. Was a miserable time.
I was around 18 when this happened living in the Akron/Canton region. I don’t remember this black out at all. My spouse does who’s three years younger than I am. What I remember is minimum wage was around $5.15/$5.25. That’s been about 20 years ago. Since at the time the USD was worth a bit more than CD, that poor kid (who was my age) barely made enough for such a risky job. 😢
A/C‘s and fridges both use inductive loads. (Both have compressors driven by motors, which generate mechanical power from magnetic fields). Capacitive loads, as found in most phone chargers, usually use less power and thus can’t counteract the shift between current and voltage caused by the more powerful inductive loads. Big consumers of electricity, e.g. factories, usually have to use capacitor banks to keep things in check. At least that’s how it is here over in Europe.
AC uses reactive power
Also him: Shows a refrigerator and says "This uses real power" as if it don't have a compressor, condenser and an evaporater like an air conditioner
An electric stove or an incandescent light bulb would have been a much better choice than a refrigerator, for sure. Anything with a motor is inductive.
Anyone wondering how on Earth did he overheat; it is because he was burned. All his sweat glands were destroyed by it, so he could not sweat to cool down.
underrated info
I remember that blackout. I was 13 living on the West side of Cleveland. We had a generator that we hooked up to the fridge and the TV, then we pushed the TV to face the large window in front of our house and sat on the porch so us and the neighbors could watch the news.
Watch all the jokes about electricity about to “explode” in this chat
well, it's exploding alright
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On a more serious note, I’d make a couple additions to the advice on dealing with power outages:
1. If it affects an area, leaving lights on as an “indicator” for crews is basically pointless.
2. Turning your phone off to save power also means you can’t keep up with news/info. Keep that in mind when balancing the benefits of saving charge. Low power mode, reducing brightness, and toggling airplane mode except when using the phone can also dramatically extend battery life without needing to constantly reboot.
3. A decently sized USB battery pack can keep your phone charged for days as a middle ground between nothing and noisy gas generators. A solar panel is also a great option.
@Brew I think it would helpful if you put the list suggested for a disabled person's contingency planning in the video description. That's why I looked at the description for myself. I only have general contingency stuff at the moment (so glad I had a fire extinguisher just in case, as my dad used it for a small arson in my area earlier this year (no person or animal got hurt)!)
What a perfect storm. That's incredible, and extremely unfortunate :(
One man died to 4 separate trees. Possibly the most trees related to a single death
Yeah, it's also funny to me that 3 separate power transmission lines dies to the same "sagging into a tree" problem; like, how is it not mandatory for trees under high voltage lines to be cut down and regrowth denied?
@@Kr0noZ probably because it hadn't been a problem before, and if it did, there were redundancies. Hopefully they learned that lesson and made it no longer a problem
That was shocking
r/cringe
bruh
powerful story
@@terribletechgod4965 shockingly, no one asked, watt's the problem?
r/semihaha
My family moved into the affected area only a few months before the blackout. While I have no memories of it (I was 5 and have poorer than average memories on when I was young), I imagine it was a mess because while my mom has enough foods that don't need refrigerated or cooked to go 2 weeks without power and has maintained that perpetually, I doubt she had it set up that quickly into moving into a new house with a 5 year old and 3 year old.
Thanks for all the information about all different things!
This video makes me remember how many times a week our power went out last year as well as our WiFi going down repeatedly me and my little brother had online school so we’d be in the middle of class when all of a sudden we warnt but this is interesting to think about
"Weren't"
You're welcome.
@@wmdkitty I like warnt.
@@wmdkitty “Warnt” can be heard all over the south. Perfectly good word down here.
Those zoom classes did you dirty. “Warnt”
R.I.P to everyone who lost their lives during the blackout
i remember that black out. I live in the GTA. at that time i was 8. every one in the neighborhood came out to help each other. we had a neighborhood BBQ and played some games. it was one of the main memories i have as a kid. it really opened my eyes to the people who lived around us. i still live there today but sadly only. 5 of us who originally lived on the street when that happened live here today
That sounds cool 😎
We solved the no money in upkeep of the grid here in Sweden.
The electrical companies are by law required to reimburse for blackouts since... about a decade back? So if the power goes out for more then eight hours, or so, they lose MILLIONS. Ergo, suddenly there was huge stacks of money to be made in a solid grid!
Yeah, curious how that works out, huh?
Too bad the residents of texas couldnt sue for that drbacle
I don't understand why a disabled man with family would live alone and so far from his relatives.
I remember thinking that this blackout was one of the worst things I might experience. Yeah. I know. I was young and extremely sheltered.
I was on a road trip back to PA from Minnesota with family when this happened. Ironically, we might have been affected by the blackout if we hadn't been travelling. We were in Ohio when it happened. We planned to go to the State Fair, and it was unaffected by the blackout. By the time we returned to my parents' home in SE PA, power THERE was restored.
Now I live on a well and septic system. Our power can be...uh....quirky. Most of our rural neighbourhood is equipped with individual generators.
Some buildings that house disabled and retired people have large diesel generators to provide emergency power to life enabling equipment. Hospitals will most always have backup diesels to support critical care and neonatal facilities. Was this the case that the high-rise the young man lived in did not have such emergency backup system?
My papa had a generator up all the way in Pennsylvania so my mom drove me when I was only a little baby all the way up to Pennsylvania just to go through the blackout my dad stayed home with our dog so she wouldn't get too cold.
I like to get those compressed cans of air. You turn them upside down and spray and they shoot out some really cool air. I will use a whole can until it freezes my face.
2:20 after losing most of my limbs i dont think i would be smiling
im so glad you are putting noses on people
Looks like yet another reason to perhaps consider burying the power lines. It'll cost, yes, but it'll also reduce (if not eliminate) the chance of people driving into power poles and lines shorting on branches. However, it might increase the likelihood of burying critters gnawing at those lines and/or roots growing into them.
Losing electricity in Ohio is crazy
I never thought to leave an outside light on as well is an indoor one. That's a really good idea.
I'm not sure if it was the same blackout but I remember queueing with my family for dry ice to keep all our food from going bad and needing candles to use the bathroom at night. Wild times
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I was working as an apprentice on a job for the DCR. We had to install a cast iron light pole by a public pool. When it came time to splice it in I was told to go on and make the splice. I first asked if it was off and was told yes the shop verified with the DCR that it is off. My tracer indicated it had some juice and they told me there is no way it is live. I asked where the panel was to check and I was told the DCR keeps the panel locked out and there is no need for us to check the panel. The biggest mistake of my life was kneeling on the grass before getting a closer look. I felt a shock up my leg and out the arm I reached in with. All I remember was slamming headfirst into the pole, good thing I had my hardhat on. It was 277 volts at 30 amps. The wireman I worked with did the same thing I did and verified the DCR was wrong. That was the beginning of the end of my electrical career. My leg had inflammation ever since that has gone around my body.
14:30 I don't know how anybody could come up with the idea of using a grill indoors.
I was having a regular day, but then everything changed when -the fire nation attacked- it sagged into a tree
Nice video, next time cover the 2018 floods in kerala, India.
Many people lived without power for months, while having their houses surrounded by water. Cell services were disconnected, and it was raining so much that no one could walk outside to communicate. Many people drowned because they were trapped inside their homes and the water filled up to the top.
When you say miso I just like to imagine it’s just some random guy, and I like how you talk about miso like it’s a person
It's such a shame, if only he'd gone to his van, he'd have be able to turn on the air conditioning from the van, but from the sounds of it, he'd have had a hard time moving himself
Even if he could move himself, unless he was already on ground floor, the lift would be out
@@nekotranslates yes was going to say, we don't know his setup, but his parents should have, so should have known. If this were my son, I'd make sure I'd have a redundant solution (backup battery, generator etc) and also if I knew there wasn't a redundant solution I'd be driving there, calling ambulance, you know literally anything I could have.
@@SWISS-1337 It's almost like their family wanted him dead...
I remember the news after this happened. For some strange reason, 8-9 months after the blackout, NYC hospitals saw way more than the yearly average of women in labor & giving birth. Lol.
7:19 You are aware that air conditioners and refrigerators are essentially the same thing? Although they may have different regulations about "power factor" correction, I'm not sure.
If your life depended on power you should have a backup generator. We don't rely on power but have a backup generator that will run our house.
Life can be cruel it makes u look at ur life and be more grateful for health and family
That was absolutely disastrous not just for the machines but also for human health. And industries with their completely ignorance, commuted a crime???!!!!!!!
I’m never gonna use the term “first world country problems” ever again.
I love how they didn’t draw the state border for Rhode island
I have no idea why he would be playing around with 7,200V, it's not so much the voltage but the amperage that makes it lethal, you only need something like 50mA (milliamps) going across your heart to cause fibrillation (basically the heart muscles stop working like they're supposed to) and how many Amps does a 7,200V AC power line normally carry?
yes, was kind of already dead the moment he climbed closer to the 7200V without proper equipment
He wasn't, a nearby tree branch happened to land on the lines. He was trimming branches, not working with the lines themselves.
@@monad_tcp Where was it said that he didn't have proper equipment?
@@tgbluewolf that was assumed, if he was wearing electrician 35KV protection equipment, we wouldn't be shocked by an arc jumping from a fallen branch
Voltage has everything to do with the lethality, stop spreading the BS that it’s only amperage makes it lethal.
I love how you when he was talking about heat pumps being inductive loads, as an example of something that would consume real power, he put a fridge on screen... which is just another heat pump... meaning it consumes inductive still too. Anything with a motor.
Like a tornado shelter they should have rooms that are cooled that's not on the power grid for those that need such cooling in times like this. Some people may already have it or maybe not.
Brew I can understand how scary this is I have type 1 diabetes and if the power gos out all my insulin would be spoiled which is needed for eating carbs
My mom is a type 1 also, when we lose power she puts her insulin in a small cooler.
I remember the 2003 black outs, was preparing to go to Cedar Point that weekend when all the power went down. Was pretty scary, everything was out and we kept hearing over the radio that the whole country had lost power.
we have a automatic whole house generator outside that kicks on ussally 15-35 seconds after the power goes out so we can do anything that we normally do while everyone else is in the darkness with a candle
7:15 that's a poor example. Fridges are essentially AC inside a box. Basically anything that has an electric motor or a transformer consumes some reactive power *as well* as real power. Only pure resistive loads like incandescent bulbs or heating resistors consume real power only. Also, most modern devices have capacitors built in to correct for inductive load, probably not the case for window AC units back in 03.
I am an industrial electrician and I am having a bit of a hard time believing a guy survived being shocked by a power line
I understood that a branch received the electricity, caught fire, and set him on fire, causing his injuries. There's no way a person can survive an electrical shock from a power line.
1 in a million chance of it happening, or higher odds I think.
Like someone on deathrow surviving electric shock so they let him walk free
@@nekotranslates Isn't the punishment death, not the one electric shock?
Blackout is super common in my country i never realized how much it could effect medical need , we usually have independence back up power generator for important shop/place. , rip to every one that died because of this
Did nobody sue the WSIB for Wheelan's demise? The fact that they didn't do anything to check on him when they knew of his condition means they are ultimately responsible for a preventable death.
This story is shocking
I have to ask if he wasn't an orphan why didn't he live with his mom at least? It's not like he was throwing wild parties all nights.
3:50 the story starts
As someone who live on Lake Erie, I remember it being so fun as a kid during the Blackout lol but Cleveland went a bit wild
an inductive load usually take HUGE power when the compressor (the component that generates the cold tempurature) starts. up.
It's not the volts that kills you, it's the amps.
All that happened because people immediately resort to AC instead of search for other solutions during heatwaves, or even when it gets just a bit warmer.
Talking about Japanese stuff, Japanese people, who are also big fans of AC since their country can become very hot during the summer, used to have multiple ways to deal with hot temperatures until late 20th century. We could learn one or two things from them.
Japanese homes are built with the heat in mind (raised foundations, engawa, shogi screens, single glazed windows). The brick apartment building I lived in in Connecticut was not. There were no 'other options' The one window could be opened but offered zero air flow. Fans with ice water in front only do so much in 100 degree heat. I remember nights of sleeping on a sheet on the kitchen floor, because it had linoleum instead of carpet, and was slightly cooler. Many buildings in the area of the blackout were built to retain heat, because the winters were so cold. Yes, it got hot in the summer, but the heat didn't last long. Now the summers are getting hotter, and lasting longer, and air con is the only solution for all these old buildings. It's the opposite of Japanese builds, because their homes are built with the heat in mind, and they are absolutely freezing in the winter.
@@piperbird7193 Thanks for the info.
Just a random thought here : When a tool doesn't fulfill the current needs anymore, shouldn't we use other, more appropriate tools instead? And by that, destroy and rebuild the buildings.
@@gokudomatic Absolutely no one has the money or resources to pull down apartment buildings and rebuild them more energy efficient, and even if somehow they did, who do you think could afford to live in them? I could afford to live in that building because it used to be a textile mill that was turned in to barely livable apartments. That apartment is $1650 a month today. it was $900 in 2003. It's a beautiful thought, but in the real world, that is never going to happen.
@@gokudomatic People in the northern USA and Canada have the issue of needing homes that hold in the heat the majority of the year. It can be bitter cold in the winter and it is rare that it is too hot to function without A/C.
@@KatieBellino About Canada, I heard from a habitant who lived in the plains of Alberta that it's common there to have houses with a floor underground for winter. I mean, during summer, people live above the ground. And during the harsh winter, they move under the ground to waste less heat. I've never been there, so I can't confirm if it's true. But that would today definitely be a way for people to escape the heat.
I think there was a plainly difficult video on this event as well.
Thank God for gas stoves, which they want to outlaw here in NY. During the blackout, we could still cook. Same thing when I was living in N. NJ and inundated by Sandy.
Bro died..
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I just made that up cuz i saw mugen train i ur video :3
Considering how horribly electrocuted he was it was for the best that he kicked the bucket he was living a fate worse then death.
You know a scary thing… with the push for green energy.. this situation with our power grid is going to be even worse…
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That power outage was awesome. I made it from Ajax to Brampton on the 407 in just under 20 minutes. Pedal completely buried to the floorboard, ~173 (20 year old Hyundai wouldn't go faster) km/h the entire way, and I was getting passed by VR6 Corrados and a Type R Integra.
Then we had BBQs for a couple days. Everyone had to eat their thawing meat.
Their IT systems failed probably because they were still using Windows XP