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Post by chaosisapony on Jul 28, 2021 3:53:20 GMT
The new subdivisions being built have underground lines. Everywhere else is overhead and it causes a ton of drama every year.
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Post by huskermom98 on Jul 28, 2021 4:19:28 GMT
Ours are not buried because we live in a neighborhood with houses from 40s-50s. I can't imagine the hassle and cost it would take to bury them. The energy company comes around every few years and trims back trees from the lines, but trees still get planted underneath them which has never made sense. Most of the suburbs have buried lines.
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Post by pjaye on Jul 28, 2021 4:26:41 GMT
They are still overhead where I am - but because there's a hospital on the same grid, any outages usually get fixed very fast. I can't even remember when we had the last power outage here.
However I'm surprised yours are still overhead as my Mother's are underground.
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Post by AussieMeg on Jul 28, 2021 5:18:27 GMT
I chose "other" because I have what seems like quite the silly situation. The lines are buried on our property. But the lines are above ground at the street. So basically, the lines come off the street and right into the corner of our yard. The beach house that my company's social club owns is like that. We demolished the old house about three years ago, and when we built the new house, they put the power from the street to the house underground. It's weird because half of the houses (older) still have power lines running to the house, but the other half (newer) don't. This is our social club's house on the left, and the older ones to the right and across the road have power lines running right to their houses.
However I'm surprised yours are still overhead as my Mother's are underground. Well that surprises me. I would have thought your mum's suburb is only a few years "younger" than mine, so I would have thought she'd have overhead power lines as well. But I just checked google maps for DD's dad's house (he lives in the same suburb as your mum) and sure enough - no power lines! Funny how I'd not noticed it before.
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Post by gar on Jul 28, 2021 7:53:55 GMT
We have underground where I live. Your pictures of the pruning around power lines are hilarious
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Post by Lindarina on Jul 28, 2021 8:32:35 GMT
I chose "other" because I have what seems like quite the silly situation. The lines are buried on our property. But the lines are above ground at the street. So basically, the lines come off the street and right into the corner of our yard. The beach house that my company's social club owns is like that. We demolished the old house about three years ago, and when we built the new house, they put the power from the street to the house underground. It's weird because half of the houses (older) still have power lines running to the house, but the other half (newer) don't. This is our social club's house on the left, and the older ones to the right and across the road have power lines running right to their houses.
However I'm surprised yours are still overhead as my Mother's are underground. Well that surprises me. I would have thought your mum's suburb is only a few years "younger" than mine, so I would have thought she'd have overhead power lines as well. But I just checked google maps for DD's dad's house (he lives in the same suburb as your mum) and sure enough - no power lines! Funny how I'd not noticed it before. Same here. We demolished our old cabin a couple of years ago and built a new. The old one had overhead power lines, but the new cabin has underground. The few houses close to the cabin still has overhead lines.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2021 9:41:05 GMT
They are all underground around where I live. I'm not sure if anywhere in Britain has actual overhead ones going directly into homes in the same way as your photos show. They still have high voltage pylons across the countryside like the photo below but the National Grid are in the process of re routing these into underground tunnels.
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Post by SweetieBsMom on Jul 28, 2021 10:44:12 GMT
Mine is above ground. I think newer developments have them underground. My sister's condo's powerlines are underground.
I used to lose power a ton, I live in a very woodsy area. I got a whole house generator, it was that bad. They spent a lot of time trimming trees away from the power lines and I haven't lost power in a while despite having some wicked storms.
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Post by peabay on Jul 28, 2021 10:58:59 GMT
every year we lose power, multiple times, due to tropical storms/hurricanes and winter storms. Our town did a study to see how much it would be to bury the power lines: a million dollars a mile. So, we'll be keeping overhead power lines.
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Post by maryannscraps on Jul 28, 2021 12:26:05 GMT
My neighborhood (27 years old) has underground lines. My town (dating back to the 1600s) has a mix. We do have a town electric company that is extremely responsive. We've lost power a few times since we've lived here, but never for more than 10 minutes or so.
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Post by janeinbama on Jul 28, 2021 12:38:57 GMT
We live in a rural area all is above ground. Hurricane last fall took out our powerlines for a couple of days. While lines were down DH cut a few trees down since there was no fear of knocking the power lines down:)
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Post by Dalai Mama on Jul 28, 2021 13:06:33 GMT
We had an ice storm a few years ago that took out power to a major portion of our city for 6 days. When it's averaging -10 during the days, that's a big deal.
It was discussed at the time but the cost, for our city alone, would have been $15B and would have triggered a rate increase of 300%. It's just not feasible.
ETA* It's also not a perfect solution - underground wires are much more difficult to repair, there is a risk when there is flooding, and, in densely populated areas, the underground wires would compete for space with sewer, gas, and water lines.
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Post by melanell on Jul 28, 2021 13:53:56 GMT
"And then there is the additional issue of trees planted beneath the overhead power lines. Why the local councils ever planted big trees under powerlines is beyond me. And they will not cut down any trees, come hell or high water." My words: GLITCH, Sorry! It absolutely will NOT let me add my comment anywhere other than this quote box...maybe because I removed the photos?? Anyway, this is exactly what they do in my area of the US as well. We have trees that look just like the ones you posted!
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Post by birukitty on Jul 28, 2021 20:15:51 GMT
I live in a neighborhood that was started in 1890-it's 131 years old! We have overhead power lines. But I really love our neighborhood and we've lived here for 25 years. I love it because we have mature trees and many new neighborhoods don't. They make such a difference. I love the mix of people in our neighborhood-both black and white. We live on a small peninsula that juts out into the Chesapeake Bay-we love that too. We were lucky to be in need of a new house right when the market was good for buying-we just lucked out on the timing.
Yes, our electricity does go out often. But the electric company does a good job of getting it back on as soon as they can and they do a great job with the maintenance. I could move to a newer neighborhood with underground lines but I love it so much here that even when we sell this house we've both decided (DH and I) that we want to stay in the same community.
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Post by jayfab on Jul 28, 2021 21:34:29 GMT
We had an ice storm a few years ago that took out power to a major portion of our city for 6 days. When it's averaging -10 during the days, that's a big deal. It was discussed at the time but the cost, for our city alone, would have been $15B and would have triggered a rate increase of 300%. It's just not feasible. ETA* It's also not a perfect solution - underground wires are much more difficult to repair, there is a risk when there is flooding, and, in densely populated areas, the underground wires would compete for space with sewer, gas, and water lines.I work for a utility and we were discussing just this subject in a meeting today. And the reason more aren't going underground is the above. Cost is an issue but repair ability is a huge part of it, it is really hard to quickly repair underground issues. They have to bring in the big equipment rather than just a bucket truck.
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Post by Patter on Jul 29, 2021 10:39:23 GMT
We had underground in TX (lived there 14 years), and we have underground here (have been here 9 years).
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jul 29, 2021 12:49:05 GMT
And then there is the additional issue of trees planted beneath the overhead power lines. Why the local councils ever planted big trees under powerlines is beyond me. And they will not cut down any trees, come hell or high water. This is the result, when they have to prune around the power lines. How ridiculous does this look?! Growing up in the city, that’s what all the trees looked like because they were planted along the streets underneath the power lines. So dumb.
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Post by tyra on Jul 29, 2021 12:54:06 GMT
We have underground, our subdivision was built in the mid 90s. Now my ILs, who live 7 minutes away and whose subdivision was built in the late 2000s, has above ground. Makes no sense.
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Post by littlemama on Jul 29, 2021 14:03:51 GMT
Both. Within our condo complex (about 28 years old), they are underground. The subdivision immediately behind us, they are above ground.
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Post by kelly8875 on Jul 29, 2021 14:08:22 GMT
My street has under. But our little development is only about 12-15 years old, and it's a cul de sac. The connecting street to it is overhead.
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Post by smartypants71 on Jul 30, 2021 15:06:43 GMT
Overhead. My neighborhood is pretty old and the power lines are ridiculously low. So low, that my moving van had to enter a different way to my house because they couldn't fit underneath.
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Post by epeanymous on Jul 30, 2021 15:29:34 GMT
Overhead, so bad storms often knock out power. Although the weirdest outage I had—I watched as a large crow flew into our closest line at just the wrong angle and somehow ( ) snapped it (the bird ... did not make it, and thankfully a neighbor disposed of it).
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Post by longtimenopea on Jul 30, 2021 15:31:22 GMT
They’ve been working hard to bury power lines over the last 10 years or so here. Lots of neighborhoods have been done now, although there’s still a lot to do. It’s been great. We have lost power so much less often since they started burying the lines. I also like the way it looks.
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Post by hop2 on Jul 30, 2021 19:02:45 GMT
Yes We have overhead power lines and underground power lines.
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Post by anniefb on Jul 30, 2021 19:47:57 GMT
My street was developed in the early 1960s so we still have overhead power lines. The new suburbs have underground lines and there is some undergrounding of older lines done every year but only a small number of streets due to the cost. I would think we'll be waiting a while for anything to be done.
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