PJ, glad to hear you made it through. Hope you up & running soon... more & more friends here in MA are getting power back today.
And Joseph, I'm with you. Our scenic little New England town likes to tout the claim that Eleanor Roosevelt described us as having "the most beautiful Main St in America," and you have to get approval from the town fathers to change the paint color on your front door, yet the landscape is blighted by the ugly wires everywhere. And the sneakers... what is up with that, anyway? :) -c On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Joseph McAllister <pentax...@mac.com> wrote: > On Aug 30, 2011, at 14:31 , Charles Robinson wrote: > >> On Aug 30, 2011, at 16:14, John Sessoms wrote: >>> >>> Put the utilities underground where they belong and you don't got to worry >>> about trees falling over on them. >>> >> >> Much more difficult to repair when lightning strikes 'em though (yes, still >> happens when they're underground). Tons more expensive to put 'em there, >> too! > > > One of my constant bitches for many years has been the refusal to put > utilities underground by the most of the power companies in the last 50 > years. They are doing it, but usually only in new developments where there is > nothing in the way, like newly cleared ground. The only time I've ever had > that luxury was in Fredericksburg Virginia, buth in my original townhouse > purchase, and later in the house we had built in an area that was forest, > then the roads and utilities were put in, finally the houses. > > I champion bringing all utilities underground over the next 50 years, if for > no other reason than the aesthetic. And kids will stop wrapping their cars > around them. Sky divers won't get hung up in them. Nor Balloons. Our view > will be improved greatly, photographically and by appeal, as we no longer > will have to look at expensive pairs of sneakers dangling from them. > > DOWN WITH THE WIRES, AMERICA!!! (and everywhere else) (think what a bounty > of jobs that would become available if the go'mint formed a DWW whose goal > was to transition overheads to buried, ojne street at a time. Tell your > representatives, local, state, and federal about this plan. Improve the > economy with me! > > > Joseph McAllister > pentax...@mac.com > > THE SENILITY PRAYER : > Grant me the senility to forget the people > I never liked anyway, > The good fortune to run into the ones I do, and > The eyesight to tell the difference. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
