re: Tropical force winds in BR (July 31)

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That damn feeder line is such a weak link. Damnit Entergy just bury the lines!

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Agreed. I don't think Entergy has enough financial incentive to embark on that for the neighborhood. They did a decent job a couple years back cutting back a bunch of tree limbs away from the overhead lines but there's only so much you can do with this many trees around. The same with those brand new poles on Highland - they are solid and should last a while but are surrounded by tall old trees.

The last outage we had was May 8th according to my Mobile Link app (Generac). That was a 6 hour outage from a limb sitting on one of the three phases of 34.5kV utility power on Highland. If the outage is caused by a power line inside the neighborhood, you can guarantee it'll take at least a day or two for them to even come out and look at it. If it's on Highland and affecting more than just this neighborhood, they are much quicker to come out. But everyone in here knows the deal - probably 30-40% of houses on that old overhead circuit have some form of backup power. Today is my first overnight outage since purchasing my generator back in the fall of 2021.