Subj : Tiers
To   : Stewart Honsberger
From : Ross Cassell
Date : Wed Aug 01 2001 10:17 am

Hello Stewart!

01 Aug 01 13:27, you wrote to Andrea Santos:

 AS>> Maybe tree limbs don't come down in his little corner of the
 AS>> world. Happens regularly here. ;-)

 SH> Actually, they do, but it's of no consequence. My power and phone
 SH> lines are buried.

Transformers dont go out up there?

and your claim is absurd unless you can show that 100% of your power grid is 
buried.

For instance your subdivision might be newer than others, remember a drunk 
driver hitting the wrong pole or a squirrel nesting near a transformer a matter 
of blocks or miles from your subdivision is all it takes to knock you out of 
service..

In the neighborhood I was raised in, we had the standard overhead lines, 
afterall the place was built in the 50's and 60's. Up the street there was 
undeveloped land that was going to be a small park, but the county changed its 
mind and allowed it to be developed, this was in the late 70's. It was enough 
land to accomodate an L shape development for over a dozen homes, their power 
lines were buried, but guess what, they were tied into the adjacent over head 
ones, and if our power went out after a summer thunderstorm, so did theirs.

All new residential and commercial developments I have seen utilize underground 
cabling in places I have seen and been through.

 SH> What kind of primitive power grid are you in, anyways?

It depends on how old the infrastructure is Stewart?

Dont sit and tell us that Oshawa doesnt have overhead lines?

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Ross
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