[ealgeone]

Agreed—I am thinking about tropical storms and hurricanes that knocked out power lines here in New England over past decades.

Except you didn't have 150 mph winds up there.

[cgbg]

Correct—that is why the transmission lines remained intact.

[freeandfreezing]

Except you didn't have 150 mph winds up there.

True, we have trees that break with tons of ice stuck to them that bring down all of the power lines. In one of the larger ice storms of the last 20 years wires were on the ground all over southern NH, with broken poles very common.

We had all hands on deck to cut trees, linemen from all over here to help, and remarkably the power was back in a week or two.

Re-building some of the high voltage infrastructure in Louisiana is a bigger project. I am sure resources are heading to the state from all over to help out.

[JohnBovenmyer]

Remember Iowa’s derecho, especially in Cedar Rapids, just a year ago. Big area, prolonged time and hundreds of thousands affected. Grid wiped out. Winds measured over 125 mph and estimated up to 140 mph based on damage seen.