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Utility pole surrenders early to gravity in Jamaica Plain

Downed power line

Matthew Christensen reports a power pole, and presumably the power it carried, came down sometime before noon today on Myrtle Street, just behind the Centre Street post office in Jamaica Plain.

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Lateral shear forces from blustery winds.

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It may also rot and rust, the bottom of that pole and conduit were bound to fail.

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Behold gravity ... in all its glory!

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It was Wendy.

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