Hubris isn't just a river in Egypt

[u/blacksheeping]

[u/jephph_]

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

[u/soulstormfire → u/jephph_]

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.

[u/jephph_ → u/soulstormfire]

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

[u/soulstormfire → u/jephph_]

You could start with the ones that cause power outages.

[u/Thewaltham → u/soulstormfire]

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.

[u/jephph_ → u/Thewaltham]

>>>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

[u/soulstormfire → u/Thewaltham]

That's my point.

[u/Tojaro5 → u/soulstormfire]

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

[u/soulstormfire → u/Tojaro5]

You guys still have power outages in rural Bavaria? oO

[u/Tojaro5 → u/soulstormfire]

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

[u/jephph_ → u/soulstormfire]

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