dave wrote:

Telamon wrote:


Which has naught to do with the question of overhead VS underground
power lines.

Now answer the question you originally posed.


I said you either bury the power lines or trim the trees. Doing nothing
because it may be a long time before there's a storm is gambling with
people's lives.

We used to be better than that. We are a mediocre second-rate ********
country nowadays.

Crap, they've a private contractor trimming trees every spring, summer and fall
here.

Sometimes I think they go overboard, but, it sure is cool that they can feed a
huge branch into those chippers!