above the homes?We are thinking of buying a lot in an older area of town (appealing to us), but I've noticed these wires which seem to clutter the view. And I wonder if they present some dangers to consider. Are such wires underground in newer areas?
1:-If it heavilty rains and these wire gets broken up and gets mixed in a water say barrel of water then if anybody puts hand in it { he/she becomes rosted human flesh(burns)} leading to death! 2:-If there is any problem to be fixed if a person tries to and just one mistake can kill his life. 3: -Any small sparks can lead fire all around
Does it get very cold (icy) there. Are there trees near the wires? Does it get windy? All these things will affect what could happen with overhead wires. If they stay up, no problem.
those electrical wires above your head are called overhead lines they are unsheathed. they're cheaper than underground cables. lines usually have to have a clearance of 17 feet from the ground for usual distribution voltages. cuz current(ac) in the line flows around it and not through it. in short. don't buy a house there. but just check if the wires are electrical lines or telephone wires.
that they can fall from ice, trees, etc the jury is still out about whether there's a health risk if they're high voltage. Main transmission lines, that are typically 100,000 volts or higher, have a rather large elctromagnetic field around them - large enough to penetrate a person standing below or near the lines. There's no definitive answer as to whether they will effect the human body in some negative way but there is anectdotal evidence that it does (cancer, for example). If you don't mind the asthetics of overhead wires and still want to live there, you can check with the local power company to find out what the voltage is (the higher the voltage, the larger the magnetic field). You can also check the area where you plan to live with a gaussmeter. That'll show your exposure to the expanding and collapsing field relative to anywhere else. Armed with that, you can go online and do a little detective to get an idea of what you'd be exposing yourself to day in and day out.
Overhead wires are ubiquitous. I'm a little intrigued to read a question such as this one because overhead wires are so ubiquitous in the U.S. that I wonder whether you're from around these here parts, stranger. I understand Carmel, CA has all of its utility wires buried, and the whole city is one big tourist visitation site (with entrance fee!) And my hometown has a section with the wires elsewhere, but that's only one section. To your more specific question: I read the original New Yorker article (sometimes I feel as if I'm the only one who has) about a lady in Denver, CO cataloguing and calculating the locations of the Power Pole transformer box in relation to leukemias and other weird brain cancers. She found there was an odd statistical correlation that she suggested SOMEONE ELSE check out and verify or refute. Instead, people went nuts, accused her of everything, and basically refused the one thing she asked for: check it out. As far as I know, no one since has done anything even close to that kind of study . . . but you still get the pregnant woman warning on the heating pad, heh heh heh. Thus, the only importance the overhead wires has to you and yours is if the transformer is behind your house or next door. And that's a maybe.
