I totally agree with this. I'm in the middle of OKC. Super old neighborhood. My lines caught fire twice. Og&e called it a power outage and not a priority. It took the second fire for them to come out to start to work. That wind was so scary yesterday
I thought this was due to wildfires from dry conditions and climate change. I don't live there, but can anyone educate me or send me a link about the problems with the grid there?
This is why I smelled smoke last night???? I’m in the KC metro and it was weirdly smokey and smelly outside but made no sense given we’d just had the severe storm front move thru and we don’t get those huge forest fires
It's where they run the powerlines underground instead of above ground.
Pretty obvious trade-off. Cost of installation and maintenance is higher, but less vulnerable to above ground events like tornadoes and various other windstorms.
In some areas, the frost goes pretty deep, so burying utilities is really expensive compared to poles. But I don't know if that's the reason in this area, or if it's just the initial cost looks too expensive for the people making those decisions.
Our area has all the lines underground including our subdivision. We almost never lose power when storms come through. And I’m in Florida so hurricanes. Wonder what will happen given the CR cut all funding for fema…..
Oh. Is this why the sky over Dallas is full of soot and the air quality index is like 110? It’s incredibly hazy. Reminds me of my childhood in NYC before there was an EPA.
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Pretty obvious trade-off. Cost of installation and maintenance is higher, but less vulnerable to above ground events like tornadoes and various other windstorms.
Now, that's expensive!