At long last my Unix nerd username is for once appropriate, thanks for noticing

Was there a bus error?

Why do we live here?

Have you looked into installing those heated cables?

Great photo! I 💕 NH!!

belmont hall in Manchester

Lmao

Bottom text is kinda in right now though

It's the type of meta humor that's fresh with the kids

This reminds me of the story of Mr. Dumpling. Mr. Dumpling never wanted to learn to defend himself. Mr. Dumpling scoffed at his teachers. Then, when the day came that Mr. Dumplings enemies closed in on him, he blocked their attacks and broke their fists with his face.

Two factors: sprawl, NH is very sparsely populated, this calls for a lot of lines at risk from trees and it also costs more for the state to operate so inherently lines are in rougher conditions. Mixed use medium density zoning which we see in a lot of other states or Canada has very reliable infrastructure and tax income to upkeep ratios for the city.

Other factor is climate, we are in the sweet spot for snow rain freeze-thaws, this puts ice and weight on trees and lines. Go north more and it's just snow, go south it's just rain.

I apologize to the OP for derailing their post.

We never lost electricity in the 60s, 70s, 80s etc like we have since 2008. We lost our power for 9 days when we lived in Barrington in 2008. After that ice storm, Public Service trimmed back lots of trees in the area. They even took down a lot of trees going up our driveway at no charge. We still lost power for 4 days in 2010 and 2011. I’m guessing it’s because there are more people and more drain on the grid. With the increase of the cost recently, you would hope upgrades would be coming

much of the grid is from the 1950s. Many more houses have been built, and larger houses with much larger electrical service and many more appliances.

I second this. But if your from Mass please don’t try to change it

The simple answer: Trees. Wet snow. Branches fall on power lines.

NH won’t bury the power lines.

Merrimack County - Szechuan Garden

You make it sound like everything falls off the poles every storm. They'll fix it. If it's that much of a problem, get a generator.

True Story!

It's New England, any house that is still standing after 30 years probably does not need the roof raked.

We need some of that wireless electricity. The conspiracy theorists would need more than a ton foil hat to protect themselves, though.

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Trees, and with warming we get more wet snow. It used to be more light and fluffy. Now its wet and heavy.

I've lived in Vermont for my entire life and I've lost power for more than an hour once.

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