dave wrote:

Telamon wrote:
In article ,
dave wrote:

MNMikeW wrote:
"Mike" wrote in message

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On Feb 5, 8:05 am, dave wrote:
The widespread power outages could have been less severe with a little
right-of-way maintenance. If you'd quit voting against taxes maybe you
wouldn't be freezing in the dark right now.

http://www.georgiapower.com/community/treepruning.asp

The "disaster" was foreseen and you chose to do nothing.

Dorkus Maximus has spoken!

Pruning trees in KY is much more expensive than pruning palm trees in
Los Angeles. Even with tax increases state and municipal gov't are
facing billions in cutbacks due to the worsening economy. Forgive us
if we put more emphasis on saving our school system than in pruning
trees.

Armchair quarterbacks always have the answer.

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Having been thru several up here in MN, Dave is indeed talking out of
his behind.


Sure, sure. Are you saying trees are not the #1 cause of power
failures?

You are not thinking this through.


On the contrary, My point is people need work and there's work that
needs to be done.


Your point started with confusing the paying of taxes with work that is the
responsibility of the utilities.

You also seem to think the utilities don't know the cost/benefits of buried
lines.

The cost to bury lines would be borne by all the customers. Do you have any
clue what this would cost? Do you have any idea how it compares to the cost
of repairing overhead lines?

Do you have any indication that the trees were NOT trimmed according to
standards/guidelines or specifications?

To eliminate trees as an issue would probably removing, not trimming, any
tree within 40-50 feet of the power lines.

You also don't seem to realize that the recent storm was not typical.

Finally, when nobody agrees with your points, you bring up unemployment as
your point. Would you equip 600000 people with chainsaws to trim trees?

Telemon is right, you need to think about what you are posting.