I've seen the safety films.
I've seen the Utube videos.
I've seen the demonstrations.
/Nothing/ compares to what I saw tonight.
Right after I last wrote, I went out to get some more gas, just to have it on hand. On the way home after a trip to the gas station and the supermarket (which was nearly deserted, btw), I was taken aback by a "Detour" sign blocking the road: a tree had fallen across it while I was shopping. I started to make the turn onto the alternate route.
The sky lit up like God's own welding torch. It was an hv arc flash, which lasted over thirty seconds. I went down the road, and saw some smoke coming across, but no wires, so I kept going, but when I got up to the smoke I realized that the hv line was lying across someone's lawn, burning the grass.
I told the fire department.
I'm back on the generator just for long enough that my wife could cook dinner. I'll stop now.
Stay safe!
Bill