On 8/28/2014 11:42 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
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> "Sqwertz" > wrote in message
> ...
>> On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 14:21:57 -0700 (PDT), Kalmia wrote:
>>
>>> Tonight I'm tossing together the last of my frozen meat - some
>>> ground pork, some last-legs mushrooms, end of the celery.....egg
>>> foo yong of a sort comin' up. Not much left in there - some frozen
>>> veggies and fruit. Gonna make up a lot of big ice blocks in
>>> case.......hurricane prep of a sort. If I lose power, at least I
>>> can keep the milk and dairy going for a day in the big Igloo.
>>
>> I haven't had a power outage in 14 years. All of our utilities are
>> underground, including the electricity all the way to the power
>> substation. It's possible bad weather could take out the high tension
>> transmission lines from the power plant, but those would be the first
>> things they would fix in an outage.
>>
>> All utilities should be underground wherever possible. Telephone
>> poles are visual pollution.
>>
>> -sw
>
> I've lived in areas with underground wiring and we still had outages.

And...they took longer to track down and repair.