It won't be long before the cable would give away if the wind continues to swing a while

Wouldn't want to be driving under that when it let loose

Depending where this is, it could easily be the wind shaking poles (with lights that were never fully tightened down)....

This is close to where you live @Xmaslightguy, it's behind the Lowes on Belleview Ave near the intersection of Belleview and Wadsworth.

This light appears to be victim of vibration (from a car hitting the pole). If you over-tighten the bolts, the cast aluminum housing will crack around the slipfitter like what you see above if the pole is hit. This appears to be a steel pole, so if the pole doesn't have a breakaway base, it's not going to fall unless it was hit by an 18-wheeler or dump truck.

I'm surprised the fixture is still hanging from the wires. The wires themselves are plenty strong to hold the light but normally when this happens (around here at least) the wires yank right out of the terminal block or the terminal block breaks off the light and the fixture connections to the block pull off the block (since the factory connections are all slip-on spade connections). Then all you're left with is danging wires connected to a terminal bock with the rest of the fixture on the ground lol. Honestly that's probably the best scenario since if the supply wires are still on the terminal block, they won't be able to move around and touch each other (though if that does happen, the metal pole lights should all be individually fused; wood pole lights generally are not fused though).

@Lil'Cinnamon:
I was just at that Lowes on wednesday .. LOL (even came in from behind - but from the other direction)
Might be back by there this weekend - or if not, I'll be by the day after Christmas...

Can easily get some pretty good winds through that area - 80+ mph, but there hasn't been anything lately.


@streetlight98:
Yep steel poles there.
Depending when he took this, that could be the explanation...
We did get a little snow & the roads (especially side streets) were pretty icy/snowy thursday morning

@Lil'Cinnamon/@streetlight98:
I stopped by the Lowes near it today to check out their Christmas Clearance, then went back & found this one
Your theory is correct...that is clearly what happened

The light is gone now too, but the pole remains updated pic

I was by this last Friday... The dented & leaning pole is still there, with no light on it.

It's been that way for a while, I've driven past this only 30 times since I took this picture, there are other lights that are stilll missing, and there was a couple poles that were knocked down a while back that have been still laying on the ground, one of them had the LED light fixture on the ground busted for a good month before the light finally disappeared, but the pole is still on the ground and nothing was put back up, this one is at a traffic signal but it's one of the stand alone poles that didn't have anything on it but the pole and the arm and the streetlight.

Wow, sounds like a lack of service, and maintenance!

@Lil'Cinnamon:
30 times? wow...I believe Friday was the first time I've been by there since my previous post in Dec 2017

There've been other locations where I've seen poles lay on the ground for a long time. Though whenever I've seen one, the light has always been gone...

This has been replaced by a GE Evolve.

I like GE Evolve Does anyone else ?

@traffic light1: I like the look of the GE Evolve fixture, and the color the 3000k version's light ... but in general, some of those Evolve's are real glarebombs, which I'm not a fan of