IMO a nice house under power lines is like a hot chick that smokes — immediately disqualified.
justme
on April 23, 2010 at 8:18 pm
Probably a perfect house if you are blind and deaf.
Petra
on April 23, 2010 at 8:37 pm
24-7 bug zapper…no mosquitos, man!
Jeeman
on April 23, 2010 at 8:56 pm
Jim, Jim, Jim,
The reason why the ice cream truck follows you around is because you haven’t bought anything from them yet. Get out, buy a fudgsicle, and then it will be the end of the ice cream truck in your videos. 🙂
Children have the Bogeyman, Jim has the Ice Cream Man. 🙂
As for those power lines, that wouldn’t sit well with me at all. I like to play with radio gear, and those things would just get in the way of decent reception.
ocrenter
on April 23, 2010 at 9:11 pm
yes, the science behind the EMF harm is rather gray, but what we do know is there is stronger link as one gets closer to the source:
“A study of more than 13,000 children published in the British Journal of Cancer in 2000 found that living in a house with a magnetic field above 0.4 microteslas (about what you’d find in homes within 100 feet or so of a large power line) seemed to double the risk of childhood leukemia.
seems like this house is well within the 100 feet limit. or at least the back yard would be.
buy hey, your kid would be in a top notched school district…, if he or she manage to do well with the chemo…
Locomotive Breath
on April 24, 2010 at 7:05 am
“A study of more than 13,000 children…found that living in a house with a magnetic field above 0.4 microteslas…seemed to double the risk of childhood leukemia.”
Whoa there.
Childhood leukemia rates in Europe are 4 per 100,000 children. If you study 13,000 children, you’d expect to find 0.52 children with leukemia.
So, if the rate doubled, they found ONE child with leukemia?? They found ONE more child than expected?
That sounds well within the statistical variance to me. That “double” stat sounds like spin.
JordanT
on April 24, 2010 at 7:29 am
Childhood leukemia rates in Europe are 4 per 100,000 children. If you study 13,000 children, you’d expect to find 0.52 children with leukemia.
Those are yearly rates, so at any given time you’d have more than 4 per 100,000 children with childhood leukemia assuming that the lifespan is greater than one year.
JimG
on April 24, 2010 at 7:46 am
Just like the cell phone argument; some say there is no damage and others disagree. My question is why risk it. Don’t buy houses next to power lines and use a headset if you are on your cell phone constantly. Basic common sense.
Jinx
on April 24, 2010 at 8:15 am
Even power lines won’t make your kids grow two heads, they’re just ugly.
LM
on April 24, 2010 at 8:15 am
I have a different opinion. Especially in CV you get a lot of transplant Indians and Asian scientists (along with their older parents).
They were probably LIVING UNDER theses types of power towers and hanging their laundry from the wires. I doubt they even see the power lines when shopping for houses. I think people on this board are a bit more observant to the details- not so with the peple that come from 3rd world nightmares.
LM
on April 24, 2010 at 8:17 am
There is one other catagory of people- the “dumb ones”
These are the people that think that SDGE will eventually bury the power lines and the house will have been a great investment.
Hey Jim, I’d kinda like to get a fudgesicle, would you mind coming by and hanging out for 20 seconds? Thanks!
Jack
on April 24, 2010 at 9:25 am
A TRULY ELECTRIFYING VIDEO!
andrewa
on April 24, 2010 at 9:36 am
South African power line test:
Hold a standard General Electric 3 foot neon flourescent tube towards the power lines while standing underneath them at night.
The tube will light up and flouresce because power lines have absolutely no effect on things biological and material near them.
Ask yourself (or google) what voltage is necessary to induce flourescence in a 3 foot neon tube 😉
andrewa
on April 24, 2010 at 9:37 am
If you were really close you could wind yourself a coil and never pay electric utility bills again.
george8
on April 25, 2010 at 7:41 pm
If the high voltage and EMF spare you, the collapse of the huge tower will get you with a quake:-)
Geotpf
on April 25, 2010 at 8:25 pm
Everybody missed the best point Jim made in this video-If it is likely that you will move within five years, do not buy a house. Any house. Rent instead.
It’s Friday night – let’s stop messing around:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNtokGeClYk
LMAO!
IMO a nice house under power lines is like a hot chick that smokes — immediately disqualified.
Probably a perfect house if you are blind and deaf.
24-7 bug zapper…no mosquitos, man!
Jim, Jim, Jim,
The reason why the ice cream truck follows you around is because you haven’t bought anything from them yet. Get out, buy a fudgsicle, and then it will be the end of the ice cream truck in your videos. 🙂
Jeeman
Children have the Bogeyman, Jim has the Ice Cream Man. 🙂
As for those power lines, that wouldn’t sit well with me at all. I like to play with radio gear, and those things would just get in the way of decent reception.
yes, the science behind the EMF harm is rather gray, but what we do know is there is stronger link as one gets closer to the source:
“A study of more than 13,000 children published in the British Journal of Cancer in 2000 found that living in a house with a magnetic field above 0.4 microteslas (about what you’d find in homes within 100 feet or so of a large power line) seemed to double the risk of childhood leukemia.
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/feb/15/health/la-he-electromagnetic-studies15-2010feb15
seems like this house is well within the 100 feet limit. or at least the back yard would be.
buy hey, your kid would be in a top notched school district…, if he or she manage to do well with the chemo…
“A study of more than 13,000 children…found that living in a house with a magnetic field above 0.4 microteslas…seemed to double the risk of childhood leukemia.”
Whoa there.
Childhood leukemia rates in Europe are 4 per 100,000 children. If you study 13,000 children, you’d expect to find 0.52 children with leukemia.
So, if the rate doubled, they found ONE child with leukemia?? They found ONE more child than expected?
That sounds well within the statistical variance to me. That “double” stat sounds like spin.
Childhood leukemia rates in Europe are 4 per 100,000 children. If you study 13,000 children, you’d expect to find 0.52 children with leukemia.
Those are yearly rates, so at any given time you’d have more than 4 per 100,000 children with childhood leukemia assuming that the lifespan is greater than one year.
Just like the cell phone argument; some say there is no damage and others disagree. My question is why risk it. Don’t buy houses next to power lines and use a headset if you are on your cell phone constantly. Basic common sense.
Even power lines won’t make your kids grow two heads, they’re just ugly.
I have a different opinion. Especially in CV you get a lot of transplant Indians and Asian scientists (along with their older parents).
They were probably LIVING UNDER theses types of power towers and hanging their laundry from the wires. I doubt they even see the power lines when shopping for houses. I think people on this board are a bit more observant to the details- not so with the peple that come from 3rd world nightmares.
There is one other catagory of people- the “dumb ones”
These are the people that think that SDGE will eventually bury the power lines and the house will have been a great investment.
I’ve bought my share of ice cream on camera – here is the 30-second tube that tipped you to the Nightline folks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm2dTGfYy8Y
Hey Jim, I’d kinda like to get a fudgesicle, would you mind coming by and hanging out for 20 seconds? Thanks!
A TRULY ELECTRIFYING VIDEO!
South African power line test:
Hold a standard General Electric 3 foot neon flourescent tube towards the power lines while standing underneath them at night.
The tube will light up and flouresce because power lines have absolutely no effect on things biological and material near them.
Ask yourself (or google) what voltage is necessary to induce flourescence in a 3 foot neon tube 😉
If you were really close you could wind yourself a coil and never pay electric utility bills again.
If the high voltage and EMF spare you, the collapse of the huge tower will get you with a quake:-)
Everybody missed the best point Jim made in this video-If it is likely that you will move within five years, do not buy a house. Any house. Rent instead.