Yes you can do what you want, unless you do what you want in Mass XD

All jokes man. Rules are you gotta be no closer than 600 yards from buildings or houses or roads, so deep in the Forrest is the law, tho some towns have more restrictions.

Today in Lincoln got 8-9 inches.

That’s true. I relent. There’s no way society will progress unless we’re willing to make massive initial changes in infrastructure (not sarcasm).

Bingo

Unless you can give me a comprehensive cost comparison of business as usual compared to safeguarding the grid, your comments are purely assumptions and protecting the status quo

With that attitude, we'd never have running water. Power is an essential utility and should be buried. Period.

Would you like your water lines above ground because it's too expensive to bury? Think about all of the expensive things we've accomplished.

But also, look at my updated post with the economic implications of power outages. Big picture here. It's safer and cheaper for the one time expense of burying them.

Why are you targeting the lines when it’s obviously the trees fault? Support Big Lumber!

Crazy! We got 20 inches down here in MA

Nah - I don't do bossy.

It’s too little too late to bury most lines now. The disturbances caused by the switch and the cost make it a non-starter. It’s also by design. Guys get a lot more overtime in a year if they’re out fixing the lines all the time.

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How can you imagine otherwise? They already have the tools and personnel to fix outages and trim trees. How much more do you think they would need to bury lines all over a mostly rural state that’s mostly made out of rock? It would be astronomically expensive.

A shame the state/power companies didn’t load up on super cheap long term debt when interest rates were zero to finance doing something like this with long term value when they had the chance.

I hate Big Pole

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Prove it

It's astoundingly cheaper than burying lines.

Oh those pesky facts to aggravate the naysayers!

What's the cost per foot to trim trees, maintain poles, and respond to downed wires? You need to be able to answer this question in order to assert burying lines is too expensive.

The deal is that all the profits go to shareholders and is not invested back into reliability measures !

No, it's people that realize that the costs of burying lines all over the granite state would be insanely expensive compared to dealing with occasional storm damage. Buried lines only make sense in dense areas where the cost per subscriber in burying the utilities makes sense.

Well,for one, the unions. There is a lot of money to be made in disaster response.

Second, people who just hate change and are stubborn as fuck, convinced " it it ain't broke" and then downplay the seriousness of storm outages. AND then undervalue the priceless ness of investing for a reliable and foolproof grid.

What special interests are opposing burying power lines? Is there a “Big Power Pole” lobby?

Our place has buried utilities and it's been great for grid reliability. These places were fairly cheap when built too. I guess it's easy if you're building a development from scratch but retrofitting neighborhoods is a real pain. Although I imagine that it cost Comcast a lot of money when they went to fiber. They had to dig up the roads here to install fiber to the boxes which were then coax to the homes.

I have my license to carry and own multiple guns I carry every single day 😂 can’t believe you said I’m a gun law supporter that actually made me laugh out loud