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 -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Integrity Credibility Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. | Innovation <http://www.appl-ecosys.com> Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
