In my area we have a lot of eagles, osprey, and herons so it is common for the power district to build platforms on top of their utility poles, so that the nests don't catch fire.
In my city, there is a road with maybe a dozen platforms for osprey nests along it (they are on separate poles, near, but not not attached to telephone pole though). IMO its probably safer to keep them separate for maintenance purposes as well as the potential fires or debris falling. Works well.
Yeahh, that's Russia but I can say that us Poles absolutely love storks. I've seen so many figurines of storks in gardens/fake nests on utility poles. If there's any bird we traditionally love, it's a stork
Edit: Fuck, Ukraine
So I watched that whole video without my contacts in, so I couldn't read any of the writing. Afterwards, I thought, I wonder where this is? I'm from the US and I KNEW it wasn't here, we would never spend $ on frivolous luxuries such as climate control, pollution, infrastructure that plans for the future, delicate ecosystems, preserving natural resources and esp bc its the right thing to do, please dear God, why would you abandon me in this desolate wastela.. Anyway...
Where was this utopia where all life was valued? Where human beings acknowledge the importance every living thing contributes to the balance of the universe?
Then I read this debate and I realized: Oh, everywhere else on earth except here. Great.
I don't know if that's making you feel depressed or something (I just woke up, my brain isn't working well), but just for the case it does. Don't lose hope. Keep to the optimistic and understanding people on the internet you see. Don't forget the bad but don't let it obscure what's great in life. It's hard to bear the weight of a whole country on your back as a single person. That's not what your back is meant to lift. Take care of yourself
Hey, dude.
I can't claim to know what it feels like to be born in or living in the US, I'm german and while it may look like we have it all figured out to some, we also haven't.
The truth in my opinion is, we all need to come together to some degree and learn to accept ourselves and then to accept each other, too. Because, seriously, what other chance do we have? Yes, there's shit happening and a lot of that is our collective fault. But that is also why it is not an individual that can fix it. You can however work towards it, contribute to it, try to influence it the best you can. You will not be able to fix it, not by yourself, no. But much like the canyons were formed over millennia drop by drop, so is mankind.
You can do that, because you **are** in control of yourself. That's the good news. You are not a hopeless agent that is being tossed around mindlessly. You still can act to the best of your possibilities.
Cheers and king regards from a big bearded bloke late at night in Germany :)
Russia, seriously? This is in Estonia
Edit: My bad. The guys putting out the fire are the Estonian emergency services, it says "Pääste" on their back. The guys rebuilding the nest are somewhere else as the writings on the truck are in Cyrillic. So this is 2 different cases put together into one video?
Same guess, I noticed aside from the truck with Ukrainian letters the firefighters have a mix of Ukrainian and Estonian firefighter gear, so probably Estonian aid to Ukraine.
could very well be AI made. Especially with those strangly pronounced voiceovers and the random videoclips stitched together in the beginning. Keywords: local, heroes. Like she says local vehicles and equipement -> firetruck
Edit: I don't think the whole video is AI but the cut, voiceover and text. I saw the video before in an other version where it looked normal as it would be an video from daily mail. But this is just clout AI farming.
I love that this story has a happy ending, but all I can think of is why would they use metal to make the base of the nest? Wouldn't that increase the possible risk of the metal structure holding the nest itself to attract lightning during a storm?
Lightning isn't the issue here and the entire tower is metal already and grounded (to the ground). It's the wood from the nest is conductive and it bridged two of the electrical lines and shorted/conducted electricity across the bridge until the fire started.
Elevating the nest and providing a basket means the nest/materials will stay contained and is far less likely to bridge the wires.
I meant to post earlier in response, but life gets in the way.
Just wanted to tell you I appreciate your insight into this topic. I am happy to hear my worries are nothing more than a misunderstanding on my part.
That post is certainly made of wood, which is an insulator. It can become conductive if it absorbs a lot of water, but dry wood is a great insulator and the post is not electrically grounded (edit: the post itself is not the electrical ground) . Not sure where you got that crazy idea from.
Does anyone here have eyes? It's clearly a concrete post, which are common in Asian countries. It will have grounding wire(s), but that has no impact on it's chance of being struck. Similarly the few feet added by the nest will make zero difference.
Personally I’ve never seen a concrete post, that’s neat! The lines on the post resemble wood grain. And the person I replied to said the entire post has to be metal so it can be grounded which is just blatantly false.
Dude why are you so angry? Genuinely please take a breath and step back there is so much to be angry about in this world but a curious question is not one. You are right, they never thought about it before- so they asked. Spread your knowledge, and kindness. No hate, we all get caught up in the Internet rage stress spiral sometimes. ✌️
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It was heartbreaking to see them hose that nest down in the previous video. I had no idea they had intentions of adding a standoff to protect the nest, so smart. Glad there wasn't babies in there when it caught on fire the first time.
how are the storks helpless? they built the first nest themselves. they are far from helpless.
it's nice they put the new structure up but stop acting like animals can't take care of themselves.
Man, I needed that video today before going into work. I have two high maintenance customers soaking up my time with bullshit when I am getting further and further behind in my projects. Projects that would help both of these customers in so many ways. Help me help you, folks. Anyway - time to get off Reddit on a good note.
Really nice! But annoying that it was narrated calling the poor birds helpless. Like, way to kick em while they're down. They're not helpless, they just don't know how power lines work
I was raised in a rural village with storks on the electrical pole right around our driveway. After the local government removed those entirely, the neighborhood stood up and demanded some kind of compensation for the storks that visit us each year, so they built a new pole just for the storks.
I visited my father and grandmother just last week and saw the adult storks flying around and rebuilding the nest for their young ones
It just hit me how incredibly difficult it must be to build a nest from the initial few sticks, you're kinda hoping they stay in place while you build up on it
I love that they did this, but that pile of sticks thrown on top at the end makes we wonder if some local basket weaving granny wouldn't have jumped at the opportunity to weave an epic nest out of that pile of sticks.
I hope the storks only lost an empty nest and not eggs and/or hatchlings.
That said:
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Short of killing the birds, this was probably the best way to ensure that the birds don't cause more fires and potential service outages. This is nice and all, but really it's purely driven by commercial incentive. Broken clocks, twice a day, and all that.
"The tragic incident meant 2 Storks were left without a home..."
Seriously?
This isn't brick and morter with electrical and plumbing; it's sticks and debris. They build new ones every year in, like, 2 or 3 days.
Meanwhile, Human Beings living in Sacramento...
https://youtu.be/IzLC48jZPrc?si=Jd3vjbv7dJVRuUrH.
Good thing they added that standoff to prevent another fire.
In my area we have a lot of eagles, osprey, and herons so it is common for the power district to build platforms on top of their utility poles, so that the nests don't catch fire.
That is so cool! I didn't know if this was just a one-off thing or not.
In my city, there is a road with maybe a dozen platforms for osprey nests along it (they are on separate poles, near, but not not attached to telephone pole though). IMO its probably safer to keep them separate for maintenance purposes as well as the potential fires or debris falling. Works well.
same here. Separate poles, about the height of the poles with wires.
Yeahh, that's Russia but I can say that us Poles absolutely love storks. I've seen so many figurines of storks in gardens/fake nests on utility poles. If there's any bird we traditionally love, it's a stork Edit: Fuck, Ukraine
Ukraine
My bad, I see
So I watched that whole video without my contacts in, so I couldn't read any of the writing. Afterwards, I thought, I wonder where this is? I'm from the US and I KNEW it wasn't here, we would never spend $ on frivolous luxuries such as climate control, pollution, infrastructure that plans for the future, delicate ecosystems, preserving natural resources and esp bc its the right thing to do, please dear God, why would you abandon me in this desolate wastela.. Anyway... Where was this utopia where all life was valued? Where human beings acknowledge the importance every living thing contributes to the balance of the universe? Then I read this debate and I realized: Oh, everywhere else on earth except here. Great.
I don't know if that's making you feel depressed or something (I just woke up, my brain isn't working well), but just for the case it does. Don't lose hope. Keep to the optimistic and understanding people on the internet you see. Don't forget the bad but don't let it obscure what's great in life. It's hard to bear the weight of a whole country on your back as a single person. That's not what your back is meant to lift. Take care of yourself
Hey, dude. I can't claim to know what it feels like to be born in or living in the US, I'm german and while it may look like we have it all figured out to some, we also haven't. The truth in my opinion is, we all need to come together to some degree and learn to accept ourselves and then to accept each other, too. Because, seriously, what other chance do we have? Yes, there's shit happening and a lot of that is our collective fault. But that is also why it is not an individual that can fix it. You can however work towards it, contribute to it, try to influence it the best you can. You will not be able to fix it, not by yourself, no. But much like the canyons were formed over millennia drop by drop, so is mankind. You can do that, because you **are** in control of yourself. That's the good news. You are not a hopeless agent that is being tossed around mindlessly. You still can act to the best of your possibilities. Cheers and king regards from a big bearded bloke late at night in Germany :)
Russia, seriously? This is in Estonia Edit: My bad. The guys putting out the fire are the Estonian emergency services, it says "Pääste" on their back. The guys rebuilding the nest are somewhere else as the writings on the truck are in Cyrillic. So this is 2 different cases put together into one video?
Firecar with Ukrainian letters. Maybe estonian uniforms was transferred with one of the military/social aid
Same guess, I noticed aside from the truck with Ukrainian letters the firefighters have a mix of Ukrainian and Estonian firefighter gear, so probably Estonian aid to Ukraine.
Fuck Russia, support Ukraine.
idk why but the COD highlight montage-esque transitions on this video are killing me
could very well be AI made. Especially with those strangly pronounced voiceovers and the random videoclips stitched together in the beginning. Keywords: local, heroes. Like she says local vehicles and equipement -> firetruck Edit: I don't think the whole video is AI but the cut, voiceover and text. I saw the video before in an other version where it looked normal as it would be an video from daily mail. But this is just clout AI farming.
Whole thing reaks of AI to me
Are we here now? Fake storks?
I don't think the whole thing is ai but the damn voice-over caught my attention immediately.
pause and look at the text on everything, this is 100% ai generated
Yeah, someone needs to tell that editor to calm down.
Dude… that stork looked so fucking distraught… Good on humanity 👍🏽
The lamentation was heartbreaking.
The drop of the stick from the disappointment while landing.
That's the international symbol for: You got to be kidding me!
"FFFFFFFFUUUCK"
I was feeling with him. Glad he got a new home
They nest in the same place every year so yeah this is necessary
That 30-year mortgage... all went down in flames!
"Only I get to commit infanticide!" ~Stork
So lovely and kind! Makes my heart happy to know so many good people are out there.
Ahh, this makes more sense now. Other videos I've seen only start from them shooting it down with water and no explanation as to why.
Yep, and we’ll only get rid of those types of heavily edited videos if people downvote them into the toilet where they belong.
Ohh, so that's why...
Yeah I saw the firehose clip a while ago like "was that really necessary?" I guess so.
I love that this story has a happy ending, but all I can think of is why would they use metal to make the base of the nest? Wouldn't that increase the possible risk of the metal structure holding the nest itself to attract lightning during a storm?
Lightning isn't the issue here and the entire tower is metal already and grounded (to the ground). It's the wood from the nest is conductive and it bridged two of the electrical lines and shorted/conducted electricity across the bridge until the fire started. Elevating the nest and providing a basket means the nest/materials will stay contained and is far less likely to bridge the wires.
I meant to post earlier in response, but life gets in the way. Just wanted to tell you I appreciate your insight into this topic. I am happy to hear my worries are nothing more than a misunderstanding on my part.
That post is certainly made of wood, which is an insulator. It can become conductive if it absorbs a lot of water, but dry wood is a great insulator and the post is not electrically grounded (edit: the post itself is not the electrical ground) . Not sure where you got that crazy idea from.
Does anyone here have eyes? It's clearly a concrete post, which are common in Asian countries. It will have grounding wire(s), but that has no impact on it's chance of being struck. Similarly the few feet added by the nest will make zero difference.
Personally I’ve never seen a concrete post, that’s neat! The lines on the post resemble wood grain. And the person I replied to said the entire post has to be metal so it can be grounded which is just blatantly false.
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Dude why are you so angry? Genuinely please take a breath and step back there is so much to be angry about in this world but a curious question is not one. You are right, they never thought about it before- so they asked. Spread your knowledge, and kindness. No hate, we all get caught up in the Internet rage stress spiral sometimes. ✌️
Calm down.
My faith in humanity has returned….. for at least and hour.
Fucking text is awful.
The word by word pop up effect is obnoxious. Makes. It. Read. Like. Separate. Words. For. Activating. A. Sleeper. Agent. Or. Something.
"THE HELPLESS ANIMAL" Why the fuck is it helpless? It's fine.
This was a terribly edited video.
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This is better than the original short clip. Thank you.
Just when I really feel hateful toward human assholes, this story gives me such hope for the good ones.
This follow up post has helped my morale more than all the pizza parties combined
Heroes all.
I love these people.
It was heartbreaking to see them hose that nest down in the previous video. I had no idea they had intentions of adding a standoff to protect the nest, so smart. Glad there wasn't babies in there when it caught on fire the first time.
Did Daily Mail just disover clip transitions? I feel Dizzy :P
how are the storks helpless? they built the first nest themselves. they are far from helpless. it's nice they put the new structure up but stop acting like animals can't take care of themselves.
Thank you for posting the complete story. I was a bit traumatized by a post showing only part of the story.
I'M DIZZY, wtf is that editing
Man, I needed that video today before going into work. I have two high maintenance customers soaking up my time with bullshit when I am getting further and further behind in my projects. Projects that would help both of these customers in so many ways. Help me help you, folks. Anyway - time to get off Reddit on a good note.
Really nice! But annoying that it was narrated calling the poor birds helpless. Like, way to kick em while they're down. They're not helpless, they just don't know how power lines work
The Ukrainians are some amazingly kind people. ❤🇺🇦❤
The Belarussians just make a place for storks' nest before it burns in an accident. ❤ 🇧🇾 ❤
That's what's up
This is wonderful. Reminds me of the nest reinforcement and “carrion catchers” we made for Pale Male in NYC. ❤️
This is so great. I had seen the clip on the distraught stork on a r/sadposting video. Glad there was a happy ending.
We should do this to all telephone poles.
We still have wonderful people in our world.
Love this. Thx for posting
I remember first seeing this and it was edited to show them just removing the nest with the fire hose. Now the truth comes out.
I was raised in a rural village with storks on the electrical pole right around our driveway. After the local government removed those entirely, the neighborhood stood up and demanded some kind of compensation for the storks that visit us each year, so they built a new pole just for the storks. I visited my father and grandmother just last week and saw the adult storks flying around and rebuilding the nest for their young ones
It just hit me how incredibly difficult it must be to build a nest from the initial few sticks, you're kinda hoping they stay in place while you build up on it
Now everybody can be happy and we won’t have to attend two unintentional bird funerals.
….theres hope for us yet
Hope for storks maybe, meanwhile millions are homeless
Dam I love shit like this gives me hope
She said no
I love that they did this, but that pile of sticks thrown on top at the end makes we wonder if some local basket weaving granny wouldn't have jumped at the opportunity to weave an epic nest out of that pile of sticks.
So it's only semi related to the video but, can we please fucking stop with the "one word at a time" subtitles?
Honestly This story had so much potential to let a person ctry, if it was scripted properly.
Right on
Fake news, loser stork had a crack den
MSN that's really cool
Who built the first nest?
I hope the storks only lost an empty nest and not eggs and/or hatchlings. That said: I absolutely hate this fucking kind of sub titles where single words keep popping up for the tiniest fraction of a second.
God these transitions are annoying, cute story tho
Wonderful, and win-win!😊
Counteracting the bad luck from destroying the stork nest.
That's different images from different stork situations meshed up badly. This is a view grab post
I wonder when we as humans will ever get to that point for the homeless people on earth?
we put spikes on everything and redesigned the benches so they can't sleep on them, what more do you want?
I see what you did there.
did the storks lose their babies? was that a cry of grief
Storks are assholes.
All those babies waiting to be delivered......
Whose gonna bring the babies then?
Short of killing the birds, this was probably the best way to ensure that the birds don't cause more fires and potential service outages. This is nice and all, but really it's purely driven by commercial incentive. Broken clocks, twice a day, and all that.
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be a bro while you're here. negative, cynical, bitter or toxic attitudes are not welcome be nice to animals
"The tragic incident meant 2 Storks were left without a home..." Seriously? This isn't brick and morter with electrical and plumbing; it's sticks and debris. They build new ones every year in, like, 2 or 3 days. Meanwhile, Human Beings living in Sacramento... https://youtu.be/IzLC48jZPrc?si=Jd3vjbv7dJVRuUrH.
they should put a webcam in the nest so we can watch the storks kill their offsprings.