whoa, cool, thanks.
another one of those things I never thought of but of course it exists.
this post was submitted on 16 Feb 2025
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Bury your lines east coast!
I love in Oklahoma, Tornado Alley, and most of our lines are on poles. So every bad storm or tornado, we lose power. And every time it's suggested, "experts" cover back and say it's too expensive. I didn't believe it - all the manpower and cost to rebuild would be gone vs a one time burying cost. But of course, there's no kickbacks on lines that don't need repairing.
I'm sure the East coast is the same deal. Someone's making money off that outage.
That’s a good angle I hadn’t considered.
I grew up on the east coast and the power would go out almost every storm thanks to blown transformers.
I moved to Colorado 18 years ago and I’ve had 2 outages since. 1 was planned maintenance we were given plenty of warning of and the other was because a vehicle hit a ground transformer and took it out, power was restored the same day. They’re eons ahead of anywhere with lines still on poles. Everything gets buried here on build out. It’s freaking great.