And another thing about our tree fetish -
Tree branches and power lines are not compatible. If Americans (primarily east coast) want to have electricity all winter they should consider not planting trees under power lines. I would back any agency, local, state or federal, that wrote some common sense regulations addressing our “need” for trees trumping our need for electricity.
Think of the savings of the millions of hours spent rewiring power lines due to fallen branches and entire trees.
If you haven’t been to the Seattle area, you may not know that we literally have TONS of trees (lots of pine, fir and others) almost everywhere. While we don’t get snow or a really heavy ice here often, when we do it can be a nightmare in certain areas with power and/or phone lines.
In this area, it’s not just the citizens that may have planted trees - the city and county plant some and some have been here for many years (developments and homes are built around them); and, there are ordinances wrt removing trees (you have to get approval - yes, on your own property, due to Democrat rule of councils, etc.).
I’ve seen trucks with lifts out on some of the more major (and some not so major)roads doing tree trimming. I’m sure taxpayers are paying for that, too; but, I suspect that in the long run it’s less expensive to do that preventative care rather than try to fix the lines when tree branches bring them down.
As a side note, we have buried lines where I live and when we had really heavy snow storms and cold for about a week (fairly unusual for our area) a few years back, I was without power for less than an hour. Some, even those not that far from me were without power for almost 2 weeks (luckily most had generators and/or wood burning fireplaces, etc.).
Sorry! I just saw this post Maica.
The reason we NE’ re’s do not bury our power lines is simple.
Electricity goes out, Unions win, Vote Dumbocrat and the same sh$t happens over and over,,,Unions have job and they still vote Dumbocrat.
Too stoopid to figure out the correlation between their voting DNA and why their jobs are dying… people live in their own “mental boxes” they cannot face getting out!