On Monday evening, almost the whole of Vladivostok and even residents of the suburbs felt a sharp surge in power. Televisions were buzzing, computers were overloading, lights were plowing, hot water disappeared and the Internet turned off. And most importantly – over the city the sky was clearly shining. On some power lines networks, bright outbreaks.
“What was that? What rushed?” – posts on social networks replete with assumptions of the most incredible: from a meteorite fall to the UFO.
As soon as the connection was restored, bloggers began to actively discuss the causes of this unusual phenomenon. Nominated versions from “meteorite or UFO” to “serious accident at the substation”. Voronin Valentin writes: “As knowledgeable people say, “Balyayke” pass power lines 110 and 220. I just saw there fiery ball, after a while – the sound of discharge … ”
“I saw a flash, lasted several seconds. Very bright.” “The sky has become white. It doesn’t look like lightning, because the whole sky brightened and there was no thunder. ”
“There was a spherical flash with an epicenter on the ground, lasting about five seconds. In the area of the 3rd working – Balyaev. There was no sound. Very similar to phased overload of some substation because the light went out with in 1-2 second intervals. And at the same intervals intensified glow and flash radius. But after 3-5 seconds the light appeared, “- describes what the reader has seen. A similar phenomenon, according to readers, observed in Nakhodka.
A photo from open sources Bloggers reported that the emergency phone is not answered. Some users are sure that the portal “worked at this time” or “this is the beginning of a zombie invasion.”
It is significant that in the Office of the Ministry of Emergencies in the Primorsky Territory at this no serious fault messages were recorded or accidents at power facilities. Throughout tuesday energy established the causes of a sharp voltage surge. It was stated that there were irregularities in the operation of two 110 kV transmission lines – the A-Orlinaya line with soldering to the substation “Golubinka” and “A-Bay” with soldering to The Pigeon. However, as reported by the press service of Primorsky electric networks, thanks to the automatic protection system a power outage to consumers did not occur during Vladivostok did not disrupt the operation of electric grid facilities of the regional center and other settlements, equipment continues work in normal mode. Right after what happened for finding out the reasons for disconnecting the operational team of the DRSK branch “Primorsky Electric Networks” went to inspect the lines power transmission, work is ongoing.
“On Monday at 21.10 local time in Vladivostok was recorded a short break in the work of two power lines. Sharp voltage landing occurred in almost all areas of the city, and also in settlements near Vladivostok. Supposedly the cause was a third-party impact, “RIA said. News DRSK press secretary Tatyana Kravchenko.
She explained that people could have caused problems working under the line. “Very often the cause of disruptions and major outages become inconsistent work under power lines, “- said Kravchenko. However, she was unable to comment on information about unusual glow over the city.
Ussuri Astrophysical Observatory Gennady Kornienko, reported that, theoretically, interruptions in the operation of substations could cause flares in the sun.
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