To Bury or Not to Bury [Telecom]

Last September, Hurricane Ike took out electricity to some 300K houses in in Kentucky. [A HURRICANE - in KENTUCKY! - some nine hundred miles from the Gulf of Mexico].

My house was out for nine days.

In January of this year, an ice storm took out power to some 700K houses here. I was out for eight days.

Our electric monopoly, long-ago privatized, said in September and repeated in January that it would cost ratepayers a million dollars a mile to bury the lines. Overhead lines were said to be one tenth of that. No mention was made of what it would cost to cut the damned trees that took out the lines both times.

-- The war on privilege will never end. Its next great campaign will be against the privileges of the underprivileged. H. L. Mencken

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Posted 5 years ago by Randall in General Telecommunications Forum

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