We have high wind alerts and as I watch the trees blow outside my windows... I'm also thinking about how many old trees we have around... and about how all our power lines are above ground on poles.
So if I'm not online later... there's a reason... 🙂
@danyork@Schouten_B Cheaper, of course, but also trenching in granite isn’t fun. What makes Vermont a fun drive makes it a utility nightmare even before you factor in the long lines from Quebec’s clean hydropower infrastructure.
@Schouten_B@timoj To be fair, in many newer developments in Vermont, they are burying all the utilities when they are building out the lots. However, I live in a development of around 70 homes built mostly in in the 1960s and 1970s.
Amusingly, if I walk to the end of one road in our neighborhood, I reach a point where 8 or so homes were added maybe 20 years ago. And... ta da.. the wires dive down from the poles and go underground for those few homes. 🙂
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