Unfortunately nowadays, the most necessary jobs in this economy that LITERALLY keep society afloat are also the worst paying. Utility workers don’t necessarily make bad money but they deserve way more monetary AND civil respect. 🫡

Gilford or some of surrounding cities in lakes region. Might be a stretch for walkable downtown, but concord isn’t too far.

You’re correct

Great infrastructure compared to the other New England states

Maine Alaska and New Hampshire have the 3 worst infrastructures of all the states

Sounds like this may be the likely culprit

If I had to take a risky, wild guess with a gun to my head, I would say it’s partially snow packed trees coming down and partially a shitty, outdated grid.

The Co-op was always trimming trees when I lived in an area serviced by them. Rarely lost power. Now I live in Eversource land. Been lucky so far but I never see them trimming trees.

Our wires are above ground and branches drop onto wires. We can't realistically bury the majority of the electrical infrastructure because the ground freezes in the winter and if a break occurs below ground you may not be able to access it until the spring thaw.

The trees aren't trimmed well because the power companies put the bare minimum into maintenance and people bitch and cry when they see tree trimmers out in the summer.

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Tons of trees and old ass circuits

Pump your brakes, weirdo.

Purple finch in Bedford.

When lines go down, that stops power from getting to homes.

Take a peak out a few weeks. This should be gone in a few!

You see how early the sun came up today?

Spectacular spring is right around the corner!!

That’s exactly how I imagined Manchester Man to look like...

Half as many people.

I can't speak for providers other than mine, but Unitil in at least the seacoast has crews (usually Asplundh) cutting trees back constantly - I see them or the results of their work all the time. They called 3 weeks ago asking to trim my trees away from the power lines, and it's a small apple tree.

The town and/or homeowners/landowners have to allow the utilities to do tree trimming work. Can't fault them if they are asked and told no. The large storm in December was the first time we've lost power here for any length of time since the last huge ice storm in 2012 I believe it was.

Why does Vermont seem to not lose power so frequently?

Not so much

We at least partially have the deregulated environment to thank for that. Eversource invests the absolute minimum required to keep their equipment operational. If you look at the other utilities in this state, like NH Power Co-op, they literally cut trees down within 10ft of the lines down to the ground, while Eversource only trims branches 6ft around the lines themselves.

Trees. Maine is cutting their trees year round around power lines. NH does not do they. The only time I’ve seen them cut a tree was when it is already in someone’s yard/ middle of the road.

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