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Actually, I may be putting more blame on the insects than I initially had thought. Diving around today, I am really noticing the amount of tree damage compared to the amount of home damage is quite disproportionate. I think this storm really showcased the impact evasive insects can have. Even though many of the trees may not be showing damage on the outside the last several years of growth for many trees has been compromised buy insects such as the spotted and lantern fly hindering uptake.

Sorry @Jns2183 I may am not understood your question properly.

Not every pole has a cutout . There's also different types of cutout fuses, the ones that I showed in my picture yesterday are the most common, out my way but there's also the blade connectors like looks like a giant swinging blade or an elongated axe head like they have in lisburn, I'll snap a shot when i'm out there later. They're still out of power out that way and the blades are swung out of position.

There's so many. Still, a lot of dead fall occurring from all the emerald ash borer. The hemlocks that fell in my backyard have been dealing with a infestation of Hemlock woolly adelgid. You can see the bore holes and serpentine galleries on a lot of the older stuff that's down.

Also, i'm not putting all the blame on evasive insects, but as i'm getting back to work, i'm noticing they definitely had their hand in this.

Power companies busy, but it probably wouldn't hurt to walk around and send emails, if you notice these flipped downwards on your streets.

The power companies will never mention cutouts needing closed because idiots will go out there with diy hot sticks and try to flip them themselves. Substation is what they always say because they're locked off, and people can't try to fix them themselves.

In electrical distribution, a fuse cutout or cut-out fuse (often referred to as a cutout) is a combination of a fuse and a switch, used in primary overhead feeder lines and taps to protect distribution transformers from current surges and overloads. An overcurrent caused by a fault in the transformer or customer circuit will cause the fuse to melt and the switch mechanism to visibly open, disconnecting the transformer from the line. The device can also be opened manually by utility linemen standing on the ground and using a long insulating stick called a "hot stick". Cutout (left) attached to a feeder line (connection at the right not shown). The lower wire goes to the transformer A set of pole top cutouts (with C-shaped bodies) protecting a transformer on a 12.47 kV distribution line. One fuse is blown and the tube is hanging down. Lightning arresters are mounted on the crossarm opposite the fuse cutouts. Fuse cutouts with V-shaped bodies.

Driving around today, I noticed that there's still fused cutouts that need closed everywhere. Just for the utility company to go around and swing them closed will take a few more days with the amount that i've seen open. Look up in the poles, around here, you can see them open everywhere.

Sun's already trying to burn through the fog out here. Looking directly at Falmouth.

The old hat trick for a few may not be out of the question.

My son said that there was a tornado reported in Perrry county . I'm not sure how legitimate that is. I'm just sitting here waiting for my opportunity to get my line out here in Goldsboro.

Man, did I just f****** drive through something . Dangerous situation unfolding out here on the roads Newberrytown lewisberry area The torrential downpour, I just drove through is up there with some of the best of them.

Ground strikes all around me while getting off the water, it's ominous out of here in the pincho area

This is a lightning map from our storm yesterday. This really exemplifies how poor the LDN can be at times. It looks to me like it probably picked up less than 10% of the strikes yesterday in our area.

Low level lapse rates and cape are juicing up nicely. The mid and upper levels haven't caught up to where they were yesterday, at this time . However, Northwestern PA is close to having very subtle overlap of both 3km cape and surface vorticity .

I know brother. I don't just base what I say off phone calls from family, internet stories, or just the view out my window. I actually go out and put in my own work and see for myself. It's definitely a unprecedented scale.

Reevaluating, my thought, I guess it would depend on how you look at , if you're just talking about the few streets in Harrisburg that got hit by a tornado in 2009 then, sure.

The tree damage in the area blows 2009 away. There's not even any comparison to be had.

Pictures from Harrisburg that my son sent me

It could have been a hell of a lot worse for our area had the soil been saturated.

The one thing I noticed every place had in common along my drives last night, and this morning was the smell of freshly cut timber. I think a lot of people are going to be surprised about how widespread and damaging ithis wind event actually was as pictures and stories roll in. Some of the hardest hit places along my drives were the Heritage golf course in Lisburn, neighborhoods surrounding the I81 and Carlisle pike Interchange, areas around Cedar, Cliff high school, including the Cliffs, and the north end of Greenlane farms. My son also sent me pictures from front street in Harrisburg and I can also confirm that that area seems particularly hard hit. Unfortunately, driving last night required extra attention so I got very few pictures and videos ,but seeing the damage fresh leves, no doubt in my mind that this was the worst windstorm in my hometown and many surrounding areas in my lifetime. The picture below is what it looks like outside my sliding door and looking directly back at it from my woods. I lost four large connifer trees just in that view. I also lost 2 large poplar trees and small dogwood and had several deadfalls.