Two words. Google. Maps.

From what I know their policy is to do it and ask for forgiveness later. My mother in law lives in Rumney and had a bunch of trees on her property abutting the road cut down without her input.

I'm not saying it's the right thing to do, but at some point we have to ask ourselves what trade-offs we need to make to keep our power infrastructure more reliable, especially with the push towards everything being electric. Underground service would be great, but it's not feasible in most of the state, and I'd assume prohibitively expensive.

What pisses me off is not losing power during the storm, but losing it two or 3 days after the storm when there are clear skies and no wind. Happens a lot where I live, and it makes no sense.

Put the damn lines underground!

Probably Hollis or Brookline, but you're looking at close to a million $ for anything with real acreage.

If you want to move here from another state, we are full. Try Vermont or Maine.

You want Berlin/Colebrook.

All of Vermont or Maine

I agree that people can get irrationally upset about Eversource cutting trees in their own property. However, they have massively improved in maintenance. In the 80’s and 90’s the outrages were so much worse in my experience

Meredith

It’s hard to cut down trees as aggressively as some would suggest. Lots of people get pretty upset when it’s a tree on their own property.

Yeah you wanna be up north of concord or in the western part of the state

Fewer trees along roads. More agricultural fields in rural areas. Fewer chances for issues. Also "seems" might not be correct.

That’s the NH way!

Target practice? I remember during one of the larger storms, friends of mine that live in areas that were blacked out for a while were seeing vehicles with MA plates moving slowly past houses. One even stopped at one of their houses, was peeking through the windows. Left after the home owner walked over and revealed the pistol on his hip. NH really needs to build a wall on our southern border.

That’s actually not true. Eversource has cut several trees down in my yard and reassess every year

That would be an entertaining attempt...

Yeahhhhhhh boy

Strafford - eastern paradise

Wrong part of the state for isolation. It's all sprawl, and whatever little isn't.. will be.

Might help if an ice storm hit part of the state and destroyed those types of lines. I watched a line of electric towers fall during the big ice storm. Made a bizarre green glow as the whole line collapsed. They had to evacuate Montréal because they lost two of the three major supply lines going to it. Everyone there has electric heat. No power, everyone freezes.

But yea, generally it's the local circuits. One part gets cut, they all go out. Like old fashioned Christmas lights.

Until some masshole drives up and steals it.

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And then people complained about the trees being cut "too far back".

Instead, Boston gets manhole fires and electrified metal plates on the road and side walks. Killed a couple dogs if I remember right.

Depends on many factors. If your area is powered by one set of lines, you lose that, you're out. In a more dense area, there's more lines, less chance of a single break causing a significant outage. If you're well away from civilization, you're also likely to be low on the list for restoration.

Look at the delivery fees on your electric bill right now and tell me you seriously want them to rebuild the entire infrastructure underground. Most of the state wouldn't be able to afford what would happen to that delivery fee.

North Conway is the answer you seek.