On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Neal wrote:

> Minor/major quibble: All electricity is delivered above ground at some
> point of the journey. All it takes is for some drunken fool to smack the
> pole where it transitions from above ground to below ground to really mess
> things up. Or anywhere upstream.

   That's applicable here, too. However, it was several ice storms ago when
someone ran into a power pole while sliding down 238th Ave. Many years.

> Of course if you have a buried cable directly to Bonneville the above
> does not apply. <g>

   We don't get any BPA power; they sell to the public utilities and we're
charged by PGE.

> I've had way more outages since moving to a neighborhood with underground
> utilities.

   Gophers? Moles? Smell cooking meat when the power goes out?

Rich

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