{"id":39962,"date":"2015-03-23T05:27:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T10:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=39962"},"modified":"2015-03-24T09:38:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T14:38:00","slug":"how-often-do-transformers-blow-near-the-homes-of-meditators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/how-often-do-transformers-blow-near-the-homes-of-meditators\/","title":{"rendered":"How often do transformers blow near the homes of meditators?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_39964\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/FPL-truck-72-blown-transformer-3-12-15.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39964\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-39964\" src=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/FPL-truck-72-blown-transformer-3-12-15-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"The white arrow is pointing to the transformer on a pole behind the hosue\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/FPL-truck-72-blown-transformer-3-12-15-300x242.jpg 300w, http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/FPL-truck-72-blown-transformer-3-12-15.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-39964\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The white arrow is pointing to the transformer on a pole behind the neighbor&#8217;s house<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Just after daylight this morning, I took the exercise bike out to the street to leave as a gift for someone. I could not adjust the tension on the wheel, which made it more fun to just ride my bike. I opened the garage door and was putting air in the bicycle tires when I heard a huge BOOM!! and a flash of light just beyond my neighbors house across the street. It was an electrical distribution transformer blowing, which I&#8217;d heard before (it IS Palm Bay,) but I&#8217;d never been outside to see the burst of light. First came the sound, which made me look up in time to see the light flash. I asked my neighbor if they were without power. They were. After 3 neighbors called Florida Power &amp; Light (they send a truck after they receive 3 calls,) a repair truck was out two hours later. Living here since 1983, I don&#8217;t recall that transformer ever blowing. It&#8217;s usually one several blocks to the northwest of me. There&#8217;s one on the property line behind me but I don&#8217;t recall it ever blowing. Good, that means it&#8217;s doing its job. I was mesmerized by reading <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transformer\">how a transformer works <\/a>and wondered how often the transformers blow near the homes of meditators?<\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/how-often-do-transformers-blow-near-the-homes-of-meditators\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=How often do transformers blow near the homes of meditators?&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/how-often-do-transformers-blow-near-the-homes-of-meditators\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/how-often-do-transformers-blow-near-the-homes-of-meditators\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/how-often-do-transformers-blow-near-the-homes-of-meditators\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=How%20often%20do%20transformers%20blow%20near%20the%20homes%20of%20meditators?&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/how-often-do-transformers-blow-near-the-homes-of-meditators\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just after daylight this morning, I took the exercise bike out to the street to leave as a gift for someone. I could not adjust the tension on the wheel, which made it more fun to just ride my bike. I opened the garage door and was putting air in the bicycle tires when I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39962"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39966,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39962\/revisions\/39966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}