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re: I see the same thing after every hurricane that hits BR
Posted on 9/3/21 at 5:46 pm to Butch Baum
Posted on 9/3/21 at 5:46 pm to Butch Baum
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My neighborhood has underground lines, but this is Louisiana and Entergy- we go out more than above ground areas around us... go figure.
So does mine, but the transmission lines that get power to our neighborhood aren’t.
Posted on 9/3/21 at 5:59 pm to tigerbacon
I know you’re going to get blasted on here and also it’s not necessarily the city’s responsibility but this should have been part of the $1,900,000,000,000 infrastructure bill.
Posted on 9/3/21 at 6:04 pm to tigerbacon
Do you know how long this would take, how much it would cost, and how much of a pain in the arse it would be for everyone involved?
Posted on 9/3/21 at 6:43 pm to DeafJam73
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My daughter was born the night before Ida hit. The only thing I thought about was being able to bring her home to the room my wife and I put together for her. All we lost was power. I was fricking thrilled.
Perspective.
Posted on 9/3/21 at 6:46 pm to JohnnyKilroy
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While many around the state may have some legit gripes about various things related to this storm, it's been hilarious watching the manly, rugged men of the OT come unglued about losing power for less than a week after a category 4 hurricane slammed 3 of the 5 largest population centers of the state.
I’ve continuously said how lucky I felt that all
I lost during this storm here in BR was power. All the trees around my house fell right, all the big arse limbs that might as well be trees fell right, and my roof took the wind like a champ.
I know people in Thibedeaux and grand isle (camps) that were not so lucky.
Posted on 9/3/21 at 6:47 pm to mikelbr
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quote: Our neighborhood has buried lines but we still lost power. They come above ground at some point ours too. But the power went out at the spot down the road where a tree fell 10 feet on a janky arse line about 40 in the air. Bury them until they are out of way of trees and shite. You obviously don't have to bury them across the fricking marshes and deserts in this country. It's not rocket science.
Or, you could clear the trees away from the lines so that they won’t fall on them
Posted on 9/4/21 at 12:33 am to LSU316
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I don't know how the little machines doing fiber pulls in towns make the economics work.
I've always figured that the money those towns have to put out up front is astronomical. I figure that's a big reason why smaller communities with small tax bases simply can't do it.
That, and/or some blank check liability release for anything they hit in/under city controlled ROW.
Posted on 9/4/21 at 12:43 am to tigerbacon
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I know my neighborhood and multiple other neighborhoods who would split the cost
Lol. This conversation happens once every decade when everyone is drunk at a post hurricane meetup on the cul-de-sac
Posted on 9/4/21 at 12:58 am to ellishughtiger
They are building a neighborhood behind my house. They did not like my overhead power lines running between two poles at our property line, the developers paid $25,000 to bore 200 feet, and have Entergy pull and reconnect my house just to bury my lines. Imagine doing that across the city.
Posted on 9/4/21 at 1:00 am to fr33manator
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Not to mention you can’t just run huge transmission lines next to other things without serious insulation and shielding.
The people saying “just stick it in the ground” don’t grasp what is involved
And it's AC. Which I still contend that even Nikola never understood beyond what must have been a bad shroom trip. Or doc brown flux capacitor head bomp.
You've got induction and capacitance introduced by running it underground, which varies due to soil type, ground water levels and pH. Return path to ground, leakage and leaching issues, which are still poorly understood even on overhead transmission lines.
Rabbit hole: Go look up how freaking difficult and expensive underground hvdc transmission is, and keep in mind that AC is it's crazy red headed cousin.
Hell, we can't even control the corrosive induced currents running through pipelines underground, and that's trying to keep them grounded out.
Posted on 9/4/21 at 1:00 am to tigerbacon
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I know my neighborhood and multiple other neighborhoods who would split the cost w
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