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TheCloudBoy OP t1_j5yja0y wrote

Yeah, given I lived in an area that was pummeled by both Hurricane Irene & a wet snow storm (each crippled power for 10 days at a time), I'd say this event is rather tame, or laughable. Total outages & outage jobs remain lower than at either of the last two storms, great news.

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01Zaphod t1_j5yj5s2 wrote

I’m not going to argue with you there. I’m with you on that.

However, if the infrastructure had been put underground to start with, recurring maintenance costs due to inclement weather, natural disasters and animal/human accidents would be dramatically less than it is now. A bonus to that situation would be better protection against EMP discharge or terrorist attack.

If you think about it, all of our other services are underground - waste (for obvious reasons), water, propane, natural gas, etc. Why not our power grid?

From a historical perspective, I believe the decision was made to utilize the existing telegraph structures to transfer electricity because it was cheaper and faster to install. I’m not a historian, so don’t quote me on that - it’s just conjecture.

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Truthislife13 t1_j5y43ef wrote

Yes, that is correct. They are all very good and very thorough.

A few years ago a coworker of mine just wasn’t feeling well, and her primary care physician blew it off. I suggested Wright and Associates, and they discovered she had a very rare blood disorder and needed a blood transfusion immediately. They quite literally saved her life.

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