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<blockquote data-quote="Blade Canyon" data-source="post: 678296" data-attributes="member: 15302">Totally off topic from photography, but you Nikonites are very diverse and very helpful and generous with your experiences and advice, so here's my situation:Tonight I took the dogs out late and there was a moderate breeze.&nbsp; The trees in the front yard were rubbing against the power lines and throwing sparks.&nbsp; A few branches even caught fire, then burned out, and embers fell to the ground in my hedges that line the street.I called the power company.&nbsp; They said, &quot;it's not our deal, but call 911 if you really think it's an emergency.&quot;&nbsp; (The power company regularly sends landscape crews to prune the trees around their power line easement.)Here's a pic I took with my phone and tried to enhance in PS:[ATTACH]295127[/ATTACH]Do trees spark and burn regularly when around power lines?&nbsp; If so, how have I never seen this before?&nbsp; I didn't feel like calling 911, raising a ruckus, then standing around for fire trucks to come roaring up the street, sirens ablazing, only to encounter nothing because the tree branches at issue had already made contact with the wires.&nbsp; For now, there are no more sparks, but it was quite a show for the five minutes I was outside.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blade Canyon, post: 678296, member: 15302"] Totally off topic from photography, but you Nikonites are very diverse and very helpful and generous with your experiences and advice, so here's my situation: Tonight I took the dogs out late and there was a moderate breeze. The trees in the front yard were rubbing against the power lines and throwing sparks. A few branches even caught fire, then burned out, and embers fell to the ground in my hedges that line the street. I called the power company. They said, "it's not our deal, but call 911 if you really think it's an emergency." (The power company regularly sends landscape crews to prune the trees around their power line easement.) Here's a pic I took with my phone and tried to enhance in PS: [ATTACH=CONFIG]295127._xfImport[/ATTACH] Do trees spark and burn regularly when around power lines? If so, how have I never seen this before? I didn't feel like calling 911, raising a ruckus, then standing around for fire trucks to come roaring up the street, sirens ablazing, only to encounter nothing because the tree branches at issue had already made contact with the wires. For now, there are no more sparks, but it was quite a show for the five minutes I was outside. [/QUOTE]

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