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BCBlazysusan wrote:

On Feb 4, 1:27*am, "Brenda Ann" wrote:
"dxAce" wrote in message

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Michael W. "I'm a college professor with a PhD" Bryant wrote:

On Feb 3, 8:07 am, dave wrote:
If you don't put the wires underground you gotta trim the trees.

This is why we pay taxes.

Duh...can you possibly be as stupid as you seem? It costs a little
over a million dollars to pay for each mile of electrical wires put
underground. Hardly cost-efficient in rural farm areas where most of
the people without electricity live.

To top it off the poles were knocked over by the hurricane that came
through last September. Last week was the worst ice storm in
Kentucky's history. Two disasters in the last 5 and a half months have
left us without the resources to put the electrical lines underground.

With a smart guy like you, who lied about having a PhD, Kentucky should
have
lots of resources (or at least lied about having the resources) to place
those
lines underground.

Instead, your talents are wasted hanging around Louisville Technical
Institute.

My question is:

No matter how many millions it would cost to bury the lines, wouldn't it be
ultimately worth it in the end? How many times do they have to repair
messes
like the current one before the buried lines would be paid for?- Hide
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One of the villages here in Cincinnati were built that way. The
village is called Mariemont and it is such a pretty village, like
stepping back into time. Of course, the well off and affluent live
there. The village was designated a historical landmark. Not one power
line to be seen there, they are all underground.
http://www.mariemont.org/

The power is underground in my neighborhood.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

In article ,
dave wrote:

Mike wrote:
On Feb 3, 8:07 am, dave wrote:
If you don't put the wires underground you gotta trim the trees.

This is why we pay taxes.


Duh...can you possibly be as stupid as you seem? It costs a little
over a million dollars to pay for each mile of electrical wires put
underground.

How much does it cost to trim the trees along the ROW?

Actually it is pretty hard to keep up after thousands of miles of line.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

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dave wrote:

RHF wrote:
On Feb 4, 5:00 am, dave wrote:

How much does it cost to trim the trees along the ROW?

Beyond simply Trimming the Branches . . . It also
has to do with the "Fall" Radius of the Trees : A
45-Ft Tall Oak Tree has a 'potential' "Fall" Radius
of 45-Ft in Kentucky.

FWIW a 200-Ft Tall Pine Tree has a 'potential'
"Fall" Radius of 200-Ft here in the Sierras.

Here Living-in-the-Red-Zone {Forested Fire Area}
Technically the Insurance and Fire Laws would
have us 'Clear' all the trees that could Fall on the
House during a Forest Five. That would require
the de-forestation of all the very tall Pine and
Fir Trees with-in a 50-Ft, 75-Ft, 100-Ft, 150-Ft,
200-Ft, and 250-Ft or more depending in the
Height of the individual Trees.

~ RHF
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Properly maintained trees do not "fall over".

That's required by law in L. A. County as well. We take disaster prep
very seriously here.

They do when covered in ice.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

wrote:
Hurricanes and Tornados don't care anything about Trees,,, properly
maintained, or not.
cuhulin


We're talking about freezing rain, not tornados.

On Feb 4, 9:10*pm, dave wrote:

We're talking about freezing rain, not tornados.

The freezing rain was accompanied by strong winds. The news accounts
refer to it as a "storm."

Mike

Mike wrote:
On Feb 4, 9:10 pm, dave wrote:
We're talking about freezing rain, not tornados.

The freezing rain was accompanied by strong winds. The news accounts
refer to it as a "storm."

Mike

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.

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.

"Mike" wrote in message
...
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.

Mike wrote:
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.


My link was for Georgia, not Los Angeles. My personal experience comes
for a learned-the-hard-way lesson when Katrina visited Houston in 1983
and my power was out for 10 days, due to trees taking out all the power
lines.

How hard is it to trim ****ing trees?

MNMikeW wrote:
"Mike" wrote in message
...
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?