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If you touch a downed power line, covered or bare, what's the likely outcome?

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most likley death because there is still electrical energy and heat energy in them. if you touch it you risk losing your life. so it's always safe to consider that power lines are active.

User Tom Netzband
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the likely outcome of touching a downed wire is you getting electrocuted

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