The Commonwealth displacement and underwater suction, when the wheels are going, result in much water geing drawn from shore putting heavy strain on the barges holding lines - maybe enough to sever the lines and set them adrift.
"More often than not, somewhere in the string of events something goes wrong — a rod breaks, knots give way or coral severs the line — and you're left standing on the flat, heart and mind racing, knees weak, playing the situation back in your mind".
Late today just outside Hit, fire was raging out of control at a pipeline station where an explosion severed the line just before dark on Saturday and sent a fireball skyward that was visible for 20 miles, said Lt. Col. Henry Kievenaar of the Third Armored Cavalry Regiment.
But is there a place where you can go to get help without severing the line?
The police succeeded at severing the line in its middle and corralling demonstrators to either side of the street, foiling a planned march to the presidential palace.
South Korea offered in 2007 to finance upgrades to the hot lines, but North Korea dithered, even temporarily severing the lines in March in protest against joint United States-South Korean military exercises.
It was typically, irrepressibly honest of Pichot to sever the party line.
Hossein called the regime's governor with a threat: continue supplying wheat to Saraqib's public bakery, or revolutionaries would sever the electricity line.
If the rebels were able to control the town they would completely sever the supply lines between Hama and Damascus to Idlib province," the group said in an email.
Two advanced south toward Suez City, while the 143rd Armored Division under Major General Ariel Sharon advanced north to seize Ismailia, hoping to sever the supply lines to three Egyptian divisions of the Second Field Army across the canal.
