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Old 19th Aug 2013, 15:47
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areobat
 
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Unless the perspective is way out however, they must have been less than 50 feet AGL when those trees were hit and below the tops of the other trees nearby. :-(
If it helps, the typical utility pole for 12.47/7.2KV Wye primary service (which is what this appears to be) is 45 feet with about 6 feet of that buried in the ground. This would make the primary conductors about 40 feet AGL.

Looking at these two pictures, it certainly looks like the distribution secondary/cable/phone were taken out by falling tree limbs, but I'm not sure about the primary. Primary conductors running both parallel to the flight path and perpendicular to it seem to be missing which seems unusual to me for tree damage.
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