I fell asleep on the lounge again last night which is starting to become a habit for me. I was awoken around 4am by my UPS beeping at me from the other side of the room.
At this time I noticed that the front curtains on the house were flashing like someone was flicking their headlights on and off at the front of my house so I peeked through the curtains and was suprised to see a HUGE shower of sparks coming from the powerpole out the front! It was making a crackle boom bang crackle kind of noise with an impressive shower of white/blue sparks about once per second.
Fearing a fallen power line and the fact it was 4am and raining I didn’t end up going outside but I switched off all my appliances at the wall and then watched it out the window for a few minutes until it stopped and I went to bed. I’m about to leave for work and I guess I’ll have a look up at the powerline and see if I can work out was making the lines short out. My verandah has an overhang that prevented me from seeing directly what was happening, I could just see the power wires leading up to it and a shower of sparks falling.