# RE: Is living under power lines harmful to your health?

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**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [June 30, 2008, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-is-living-under-power-lines-harmful-to-your-health/454820 "2008-06-30T21:43:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![kwalker55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@kwalker55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kwalker55)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2008, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-is-living-under-power-lines-harmful-to-your-health/454820/1 "2008-06-30T21:43:47Z")

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I don’t have any scientific evidence of any ill effects of high voltage power lines but my neighbors cattle or horses won’t go near them,also I have taken a florescent light bulb under the wires and it will illuminate.So just to be safe I will stay my 1/2 mile away to be sure.

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**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-is-living-under-power-lines-harmful-to-your-health/454820/2 "2008-07-01T20:59:06Z")

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Welcome to the SDMB, kwalker. A link to the column you’re commenting on is appreciated. Providing one can be as simple as pasting the URL into your post, making sure to leave a blank space on either side of it. Like so: [http://www.straightdope.com/columns/070323.html](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/070323.html)