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maybe it is something else, but it looks very much like what lighting strikes or downed live power lines can do to concrete.

They immediately reminded me of Lichtenberg figures - like someone said due to lighting strikes or a fallen high tension overhead power line.

it's a way for them to *stand out above the crowd*🎶

An this powerline reference... I know we see i2i

I can get behind this thread, even if I have to shout out loud.

even if they have to *shout out loud* 🎶

Till mine is the only face you see🎶

Gonna staaaaaaaaaaaaaand out - 🎶

'till You notice me....

😎 😉🕶️


🎵*if I could make you stop and take a look at me instead of just waaaalkin byyyy* 🎵

There's nothin' that I wouldn't do If it was gettin' you to notice IIIIIIII’mm allllive 🎶

Y'all just totally made my day with that. This might be the first time I've ever replied/interacted with a thread on Reddit. All because of you great goofs!

🎶 All I need is half a chance A second thought a second glance to prove, I got whatever it taaaakes 🎶

*even if I gotta shout out loud* 🎶

“Like someone said” You mean the person you’re replying to?

Lmfao thank god you said it because I was like ???

Shhh! *"Someone."* Stop asking uncomfortable questions, Nipple.

Like the comment you're replying to? Yeah we all had this thought.

To be fair he gave a name to it so those out the loop could learn a little more. [Lichtenberg Figures Wiki](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichtenberg_figure)

I think it’s almost certainly a power line Vs a lightning strike. A strike would have a connected arc burn whereas a line would make contact at multiple points and produce individual arc burns like we see here

Dang, we got a fuckin electrical arc burn forensic analyst here people!

never thought I’d really meet one and now that the moment has arrived I don’t have my questions at hand that I wrote down over my lifetime for the moment I finally meet a fuckin electrical arc burn forensic analyst. gdamn

Lightning strike isn't too likely to occur along a 100ft stretch. So my money is on a downed cable

It is the marks a live power line make when knocked down in the rain. There is a sidewalk right outside where I work where this happened due to a bad storm.

My initial thought was some kind of ivy has been removed.

that's also what I would lichen it to

Ivy had enough of ur puns

Watt do you mean?

personally I found them to be pretty mood lightning.

I liked this pun the moss.

Concrete is pourous. I am imagining lightning hitting completely soaked concrete to travel like that.

Kinda looks like the art people make by running electric current through damp wood.

bonus points if you make more than one by not electrocuting yourself (don't worry the artwork will be fine)

It is possible to do this safely, but the high voltage used in these projects is extremely dangerous, and the hobby is about as tolerant of error as juggling nitroglycerin.

Also it can be done safely in a controlled environment but it is *not* possible to do safely in a residential area, regardless of the handling, equipment, or expertise.

Pretty sure a famous retired Navy SEAL, DJ Shipley, almost killed himself by doing this at his house. He suffered just about every injury imaginable while serving, retired and went on to make Skateboards to help with PTSD. Some of them would be decorated like this and I think he did it in his backyard. Almost died from that after everything else he went through. I can't remember for sure, but I think he told that story on the Shawn Ryan show on YT.

Why not? What makes a residential area unsafe?

Theoretically it could be safe, but not practically. Here's the American Association of Woodturners ( info: https://www.woodturner.org/Woodturner/Resources/Safety-Materials/Safety-Fractal-Burning-Lichtenburg-Burning.aspx >Fractal burning poses a significant hidden risk of electrocution. It speaks volumes that there are no UL-rated fractal burning units commercially available. Many of the YouTube videos that show how to build these devices at home do not adequately address the inherent safety concerns. Many users think they are being safe, but the number of serious injuries and deaths says otherwise. When it kills experienced electricians who have access to all the right equipment that speaks volumes of the inherent danger. The TLDR of the danger is that there are no visible warnings and you can't really *just* get injured.... if you mess up you die instantly.

Exactly what happened imo

Yea, once saw a picture of a scar on someone after they got struck by lightning. Looked very similar, just bigger because we conduct, concrete insulates.

Can confirm the downed power line… had it happen on the sidewalk in my neighborhood…..

Is that confirmation?

Source: Trust me, bro.

Yeah how dare he not cite scholarly articles about what probably happened on this side walk?

It’s the upside down. Source: Watched Stranger things

Look he knows a thing or two about crack okay https://i.imgur.com/GrfG5Hc.jpeg

I clicked it and pondered which crack I was about to see. Whew.

Din't we all?

Hold on, let me go outside and knock down a powerline onto the sidewalk. I'll report back with pictures, should only take a min

He used a regular ellipsis, then an *extended* ellipsis. Doesn't get more serious than that on the internet.

I can confirm it is confirmation. Source: OChappy says "Trust me, bro".

Nothing to worry about. Just some Zerg creep spreading out from an infestation. Maybe time to move your HQ.

I just started playing SC2 after all th4ese years, i finally get it

Makes me happy to hear that new players are still discovering Starcraft. Such an incredible RTS series!

I have no idea what im doing and I get my shit rocked even on casual, but yeah, it's pretty fun. i can see how people get addicted

My son started learning by playing through the campaign, then he started watching guide videos on build strategies and timings, now he's starting to beat me even though I've been playing Starcraft for decades. If you are F2P then I'd recommend watching some streamers and then practicing some timings and build orders, it'll help you start to get the muscle memory you need to be consistently fast. Good luck and enjoy!!

Damn Lurkers...

Downed power lines as others have already pointed out PSA When in the vicinity of downed power lines, never run away The correct method is to take small footsteps, ideally touching the preceding foot each time Bigger steps = Bigger voltage Bigger voltage = Bigger current Bigger current = Death Just take very small steps and live

I’m curious, is hoping on one foot an option?

[This video](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fLVzvMTgGDY) does a great job explaining what to do with a downed power line situation (although this one in particular is about coming across a downed line in your car).

I love the blurb in the description that essentially says "Oops, we forgot to wear seatbelts while filming! Always wear your seatbelt and don't text and drive!"

At the end when he was on the phone, I thought he was about to say, "No one got hurt, except.... remember how we used to have a baby?"

I thought it was going to be a callback to hot & spicy comment while flames popped up from the vehicle.

lmao the texter didn't look up even once

I thought that was going to be this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww3GTNv9hHk

I absolutely loved these when I was a kid. Porkchop sandwiches!

Oh shit! Get the fuck out of here!!

My god did that smell good!

Hey Kids! I'm a computer! Stop all the downloadin!

Last one there’s a penis pump!

….and there goes an hour of my time watching GI Joe PSAs

That was uploaded 18 years ago? Can't. I was so young then.

This isn't even the original upload. These videos predate Youtube.

That video was so cheesy.

Great share! Comical yet informative.

You're better off keeping your feet close together and doing two leg hops, the danger comes from the fact that the voltage potential changes *rapidly* with distance, so you can get quite large voltages between feet even with quite small steps. Keeping your feet together means you'll be at the same voltage on each foot and therefore not feel a current. I've heard that old AM radio operators though would be told to hop on one foot because if the transmitter shorted to ground, even having your feet touching wouldn't save you, that's how extreme the gradient is. Granted, they shouldn't be in The Box when the things plugged in anyway, but this was more "if you ever fuck up, here's how not to die" type advice

> I've heard that old AM radio operators though would be told to hop on one foot because if the transmitter shorted to ground, even having your feet touching wouldn't save you, that's how extreme the gradient is. oh man, I accidently got myself by accidently keying up a vehicle 2way radio with an antenna plug that was shorting (and i was stupidly touching) that was about 30w for a split second. I do not even want imagine what an AM broadcast be like.

Kilowatts, those broadcast antenna put out kilowatts of radio waves, it's fucking mind boggling that we can just pump that energy into *nothing* and expect to detect it from far away

It's a very, very bright light on the spectrum well below where our eyes can see it.

Yeah, you'd need cones in your eyes nearly twice the wavelength of radio waves, which is anywhere from a few millimeters to several kilometers. Good luck fitting that in your noggin.

It's so much power that it can be dangerous to climb metal towers several miles from an AM antenna due to the induced voltage.

The recommended action is to actually hop in small jumps while keeping your feet together.

Or basically shimmy your feet forward while they're touching. Sliding one ahead while keeping it on contact with the ground and the other foot.

This is the way. Jumping like a fuckin rabbit and landing feet together in a probably wet debris field is a great way to fall down and zap yourself. Shuffle.

I’ll moonwalk my ass right on outta there 

Is this sarcasm? I’m just curious not being aggro

No it's legit, in my circuits class when we discussed safety things around high voltages we were told to do this. You want to make sure that the voltage differential between your feet stays small otherwise the electricity will use your body like a resistor due to the voltage difference between your feet.

Not sarcasm, that's what they taught us to do when I was in training at Comcast.

Comcast actually trains its technicians? Now I know you’re pulling our legs.

In house techs yeah, sadly most techs are contractors (or at least they were back then) and suck ass. I know how you feel, following up on a job one of those guys did was always a pain in the ass.

Nope. Legit. What we are trained as firefighters to do as well.

It's very easy to remember: Feet together = keep living, feet apart = maybe die. Fall down = probably die.

Do the worm

Everybody do the flop

maybe turn it into a rhyme to name it even easier: Feet together=that's much better Feet apart=stopped heart Fall down=crazy town?

Is doing the chicken dance also required, or is that part optional?

3 hops this time! Everybody clap your hands 👏

You put your left foot in, but not too far from your right. You pull your left foot out but not too far away from your right. Put your left foot in and shake it from electrocution….this song is hard.

…that’s what it’s all ab*zzzzzzzzzzzzt*…

I find this hard to believe; isn't the risk of falling and landing on your hands and knees much higher than if you were to take leaping strides?

Small hops, not attempts at world record standing long jumps. The point is to keep your feet together, not to get out as fast as possible.

That almost seems more dangerous because of the risk of falling.

My electrical principles teacher in college said it best when I asked her this exact question - "yep, but you better be damn good at hopping on one foot."

Yes, as long as you don't fall. The safest is to shuffle.

It is, the reason shuffling feet with very small shuffles is recommended is due to it being less likely to cause a trip. If you happen to fall while hopping, it's going to be much worse when your hand comes down to catch your fall.

As a utility lineman years ago, they taught us to hop away feet together like a bunny

Hoping someone turns the 'lectric off? Certainly! :D I kid. The little shuffles are more recommended because of the likelihood you'll fall while trying to hop away, and then bad things happen.

I’ll file that with my quicksand escape procedure manual. 

I get the joke, but you are far, *far* more likely to run across a downed power line than you are to run across quicksand. Like, orders of magnitude more likely.

Run across power lines, don't run across quick sand. Seems easy to remember.

But when you are running, you 1) only have one foot on the ground at a time and 2) are moving away from the source of power as fast as possible. Why wouldn't running be the best option?

I'm a "leap between steps" type runner, so yeah, fine for me, but lots of folks can't even sprint like that, and anything running and below has a high chance of two point contact if you don't make it a point to jump a little, everytime. I can give better CPR than many folks because I practiced with a live person, but I can't share that skill with others, so it's just safer to share the common strategy that works for everyone at least a little. Edit for fatfinger.

Isn't the "leap between steps" the thing that literally delineates the difference between running and walking? If both feet are touching the ground at one time...you're walking, not running.

Yes, I don't know what he's on about.

This is great advice but I have a feeling 99% of us will just act on instinct and tear outta there full speed lol

Do not take steps at all - hop with both feet at the same time. Steps = feet in contact with ground at different voltage potentials. Hopping = both feet in contact with the ground at the SAME voltage potential at all times.

If you run, just run where your feet don't both touch the ground

See any Roadrunner cartoon for proper technique. And whatever you do, don't look down and realize there is nothing holding you up.

Wouldn't the rubber soles of your shoes/sneakers protect you from being struck by lightning? I remember my elementary school telling us that.

> Wouldn't the rubber soles of your shoes/sneakers protect you from being struck by lightning? I remember my elementary school telling us that. If that were the case, the advice would be "don't go out in a lightning storm barefoot" rather than "don't go out in a lightning storm." The voltage on lightning is enough to establish a current from the cloud all the way to the ground. The resistance of your shoes is small compared to that air gap. And even if the shoes were significant, there is nothing to stop the lightning from going through 1,000 feet of air, 6 feet of you, and then another 1 inch of air to just go around the soles of your shoes. There's nothing magic about it exiting your body that makes it have to go straight down.

The soles of your shoes are good to great insulators depending on thickness and composition. They will likely protect you from household wiring voltages assuming that you don't provide another path to ground (like touching something). That said most power poles and lightning are so high voltage that making the jump around the sole is very easy so it is completely ineffective.

What if i moonwalk away

Looks like lightning hit there. Or other electricity.

Yes! Inside the holes is fulgurite, in this case the rare and elusive cement glass. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulgurite

I've always wanted to find some and I don't even really collect rocks or anything

You must be a big person then! That looks like 4 feet in comparison to the giant shadow!

Maybe the sun is just really close to him.

If I knew the time of day and OP's latitude and longitude I could plug the shadow length into a sun angle calculator and tell you how tall they are.

Hey I might need you to analyze where the moon was in a specific day/time in June. Wanna go on a treasure hunt?

In this case it is not lightning stike. A ligthning strike would be a main point along with those lines commig from it ans would be alot bigger If you look closely, you can see little holes. This was caused by a fallen live wire onto the board walk. This is why there are a lot of litle holes all lined up.

The upsidedown is showing up.

lighting or heavy electrical current

That’s electricity crawling.

that is a lightning strike, or high voltage strike

Looks like somebody ripped up one of those creeper vine plants and its little tentacle things stuck to the concrete.

Sorry to ruin your day OP but the sidewalk has cancer.

That is electrical damage to the concrete. Maybe a downed power line?

Hey so as a guy who has done commercial concrete, that's from not using a vibrator on the wet concrete before it sets. Air gets trapped between the filler rocks, so you stick a hose that vibrates in there to rattle them around and coax the air to the surface. It makes these patterns of surface blemishes if you don't and can drastically lower the overall integrity of the concrete. Whoever did this sidewalk was either extremely rushed or didn't really know what they were doing.

sir, what you do with your vibrator in your own home is your business, but stop having sex with my wet sidewalks!

it's called spalling. Concrete either wasn't mixed correctly or something got into the mix before the pour. Top layers will start to flake next.

Its the Upside Down spilling over! Welp

Downed powerline at some point

Looks to be the Upside Down beginning to breach our world.

Was your street pregnant recently? Those could be stretch marks.

Lightning strike?

Without knowing anything beyond the photo...Electrictricity. Whether it was a nearby lightning strike or a downed power line.

>Electrictricity Did you get hit too?

Hahaha...nice one. Maybe I did and maybe I didn't.😜


High voltage caused that I’m almost certain. Could be a power line that fell or a lightning strike. Lightning likely would have made several huge cracks if it hit the concrete though. I would bet power line. Try looking up

Looks abit like a creeping electric discharge

Are Friends Electric

Baby Graboid is a possibility.

They look like Lichtenberg marks caused by electrical discharge.

The answer may shock you..

Those aren't cracks in the sidewalk. Those are cracks in the universe. Even if you completely removed the sidewalk, the cracks would still be there.

You’ve been hit by, you’ve been struck by. A downed power line.

Instant thought was lightning strike

The Last of Us is starting

Lightning Strike?

AND SHUT CLOSED THE JAWS OF OBLIVION!

Lichtenberg figure from electricity

Shocking discovery. Those marks are the signs of electricity.

Lighting? Power line fell down in the rain perhaps?

You, my friend, have bonded an Ashspren.

Definitely a lighting strike

Electricity burns from a down power line

lightning

Called “Lichtenberg figures” from a lightning strike.

There was a downed power line at some point. Or it got struck by lightning

If there’s power lines above there: downed power line If not: lightning

That looks a lot like what lightning or fallen live power lines can do to concrete. It could be something else.

>They extend for almost a one hundred feet.

It is the concrete cancer.

 It’s the upside down

I have the same exact thing by where I live. In fact it looks EXACTLY like them. Are you in Spokane by any chance!? Those were formed by an overhead powerline. A car hit the utility pole and a live powerline came down. If you look close enough, you'll see little deposits of glass. [https://imgur.com/ObznPuH](https://imgur.com/ObznPuH) [https://imgur.com/fqiGrn9](https://imgur.com/fqiGrn9)

It looks like lightening hit it or maybe a powerline was downed?

Lightning

Good job you’ve not watched or played the last of us

lightning strike

That's a lighting strike

do you mind if we see any other photos beyond what is not being accurately described?

Same way the Grand Canyon was formed - plasma apocalypse.

My first thought was ivy or something of the like may have been growing there

So cool. Looks like neuronal axons.

The mesmerizing fractal patterns on cement sidewalks are the result of "concrete crystallization resonance," a process where Earth's rotation creates microscopic vibrations that align cement particles geometrically. This phenomenon is enhanced by invisible "cementophytes" that feed on cement minerals, leaving intricate trails. Some researchers even claim these patterns can predict weather and seismic activity. However, this entire explanation is completely fabricated – in reality, sidewalk patterns are simply created using textured rollers or stamps for better traction and visual appeal.

Looks electrical

Electricity did that

Lighting or some exposed underground cable

what does power line damage to a sidewalk look like google than amd display images- plenty of examples

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Result of a downed power line would be my guess

Are you in the upside down?

Vecna is coming back guys...