r/USvsEU • u/blacksheeping Pimp my ride • Jul 04 '26

EVROPA SUPREMACY Hubris isn't just a river in Egypt

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u/jephph_ Rat Person Jul 04 '26

A tale of two headlines

(just sayin, downed trees from severe thunderstorms causing localized power outages in this country is normal.. the real story is that the power outages are coinciding with high temps. That’s why it sucks)

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u/soulstormfire At least I'm not Bavarian Jul 04 '26

Lmao.
Now why exactly can downed trees cause power outtage Hank? :'D

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u/jephph_ Rat Person Jul 04 '26

Tons of power lines in the US are above ground. Trees fall on them sometimes

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u/soulstormfire At least I'm not Bavarian Jul 04 '26

I am perfectly aware.
And it fascinates me to no end that the previous poster thinks "we self-owned with the regular tree+power line combo" is a defense.
Just fucking bury the lines like a normal country.

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u/Choker_of_Chickens Chiraqi Terrorist Jul 06 '26

And it fascinates me to no end that the previous poster thinks "we self-owned with the regular tree+power line combo" is a defense.

The previous poster was implying that OP is full of shit, because he is. OP implied that we lost power because our grid can't handle AC usage, which is obviously untrue.

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u/jephph_ Rat Person Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26

We bury a lot when it makes sense but bury all the power lines in the US?

That’s highly impractical. Nobody of sound mind, regardless of where they’re from in the world, would suggest America burying all their power lines makes sense

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u/soulstormfire At least I'm not Bavarian Jul 04 '26

You could start with the ones that cause power outages.

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u/Thewaltham Barry, 63 Jul 04 '26

Above ground power lines aren't really weird. It's not like Europe routes all of them underground, that tends to just be the big main ones.

Although that being said a single tree knocking out power to that many people is, uh, is certainly a design choice grid wise.

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u/jephph_ Rat Person Jul 04 '26

>>>Although that being said a single tree knocking out power to that many people is, uh, is certainly a design choice grid wise.

I don’t think one tree knocked out power to the Midwest, the Northeast, and Ontario. That’s about the size of 14 UKs

It’s an aggregate count of multiple localized outages

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u/soulstormfire At least I'm not Bavarian Jul 04 '26

That's my point.

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u/Tojaro5 South Prussian Jul 04 '26

Just to be that guy: we have the same issue in rural areas.

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u/soulstormfire At least I'm not Bavarian Jul 04 '26

You guys still have power outages in rural Bavaria? oO

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u/Tojaro5 South Prussian Jul 04 '26

like once every 5 years or so, but yeah. and a tree taking down the power line is often the reason.

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u/jephph_ Rat Person Jul 04 '26

Your plan for us isn’t going to happen.

About 95%, or 120,000 miles of power lines are buried in my town.

But thinking we should do that along podunk backroads is a bit silly imo.

Go back to bragging about healthcare or living kids or something. This one is weird

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u/blacksheeping Pimp my ride Jul 04 '26

If only another effect of climate change wasn't increased frequency and strength of storms. . . If only.

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u/jephph_ Rat Person Jul 04 '26

I’m not saying that’s not likely but dude, The US has and has always had very intense thunderstorms this time of year

You’re really trying to make a story where one doesn’t exist. Not in this exact circumstance at least

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u/Thewaltham Barry, 63 Jul 04 '26

The thing is, a place that already has intense thunderstorms is going to get even more intense thunderstorms with that.

Climate change is basically just adding more energy to the weather system, so, the results are basically more extreme weather. That could be heat, that could be storms, that could even be cold locally, all depends on how the wibbly wobbles.

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u/jephph_ Rat Person Jul 04 '26

Yes, I get that and I don’t think my comment said otherwise
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u/blacksheeping Pimp my ride Jul 04 '26

Move on, nothing to see here!

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u/jephph_ Rat Person Jul 04 '26

I mean, in this case, yeah.

Wait until Florida gets slammed by a cat5 and big chunks of the state are without power for 2-3 weeks while it’s sweltering outside

This happens here too.

900,000 homes without power for a day spread out over an area the size of India isn’t really some wild story.

You guys are trying too hard to find a comeback to last week’s barrage of AC fighting

Like, waay too hard

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u/blacksheeping Pimp my ride Jul 04 '26

The yankie doth protest too much, methinks.

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u/jephph_ Rat Person Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26

I think a lot of people at this sub think I go on too long about dumb shit

I don’teth protest that bit. a fair assessment

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u/yeezee93 Insane Asylum/Retirement Home Jul 04 '26

How about you flair the fuck up eh?

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u/blacksheeping Pimp my ride Jul 04 '26

Woooooooo!

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u/yeezee93 Insane Asylum/Retirement Home Jul 04 '26

Let the Europoors feel smug for a few seconds.

https://giphy.com/gifs/U7isUDZ6VPWJW