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Originally Posted by Cybercowboy
High humidity would not be a problem. Even saturated to 100% humid air is a very good insulator. If it was raining hard enough to lower the resistance of the air, and the rain itself was dirty enough to conduct electricity well, at that point it would probably be unsafe conditions in general and they wouldn't even be flying around in a chopper around power lines period. But just a little rain would be OK, it would just make the distance you could get from a grounded object a bit farther. Like instead of being safe at 4 feet away when it's not raining, maybe you'd be safe only from 5 feet away.
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We work on pipeline right of ways, so we're around high line easements fairly often, as they're often in the same easement, or they cross each other. You can get a reasonable tingle of a shock when grabbing a truck door handle or touching metal on a tractor while standing on the ground, even while wearing rubber boots, if you're around those high lines. For what it's worth, Houston is high humidity a LOT of the time, some are saying, most of the time. We've got high humidity, I can tell you that.