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Interesting graphic on number of power poles damaged by Ida compared with other hurricanes
Posted on 9/15/21 at 5:16 pm
Posted on 9/15/21 at 5:16 pm
Even if it ends up taking 30 days to restore most everything, that is 1,000 poles a day or about 100 to 150 per hour depending on the number of hours worked.
ETA - Admins please move to OT Lounge. Sorry. It has been a long 17 days and counting.
ETA+ - Thanks admins.
This post was edited on 9/15/21 at 5:22 pm
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Posted on 9/15/21 at 5:20 pm to NorthEndZone
Could be there preventative maintenance program
Posted on 9/15/21 at 5:24 pm to NorthEndZone
They will receive government assistance on every pole replaced. It makes sense to run up the tally.
Posted on 9/15/21 at 5:25 pm to NorthEndZone
That's a lot of poles.
Posted on 9/15/21 at 5:26 pm to NorthEndZone
They are trying to cover this asses
Posted on 9/15/21 at 5:26 pm to NorthEndZone
Does the characterization “damaged” mean that the pole has to be replaced?
Posted on 9/15/21 at 5:30 pm to NorthEndZone
Can we get a fact check that these 30,000+ poles are indeed 30,000+ registered poles? Any pre-meditated "absentee" poles in this?
Posted on 9/15/21 at 5:31 pm to RummelTiger
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That's a lot of poles.
Posted on 9/15/21 at 5:31 pm to NorthEndZone
Is there no way to bury a percentage of these lines every year as well as every hurricane repair?
Even if it takes 20+ years, closing off the risk and cost just makes common sense. Total economic cost plus life cost = we is stupid for this.
Make power poles today stripper poles tomorrow. Win win win.
Even if it takes 20+ years, closing off the risk and cost just makes common sense. Total economic cost plus life cost = we is stupid for this.
Make power poles today stripper poles tomorrow. Win win win.
Posted on 9/15/21 at 5:32 pm to NorthEndZone
It makes sense when you consider the population centers that got the worst wind in each hurricane
Posted on 9/15/21 at 5:32 pm to NorthEndZone
They just don’t make wood like they used to.
Posted on 9/15/21 at 5:32 pm to NorthEndZone
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Even if it ends up taking 30 days to restore most everything, that is 1,000 poles a day or about 100 to 150 per hour depending on the number of hours worked.
All that know is that in South Lafourche they are having to rebuild entire sections of line and infrastructure. Down my street not one pole made it. Along LA 308 and LA 1, they are replacing and starting from scratch with new lines and poles.
I also noticed that they are rebuilding differently, with 3 wires across the top and the static wire under the lines.
It almost looks like a temporary job. I wish they would consider different poles like concrete since some of the same poles were just replaced after Zeta.
This post was edited on 9/15/21 at 5:34 pm
Posted on 9/15/21 at 5:33 pm to NorthEndZone
There were lots of poles with prior damage, weak spots, rot that were due to be replaced. The storm exacerbated those issues and while you have the extra crews down it makes perfect sense to replace what was going to need to be replaced anyway while you have the men and materials available.
Plus, if you can get the feds to pay for some of it, why not?
Plus, if you can get the feds to pay for some of it, why not?
This post was edited on 9/15/21 at 5:35 pm
Posted on 9/15/21 at 5:35 pm to NorthEndZone
And yet, instead of making the infrastructure improvement to bury the lines, they just keep putting up more poles. 
Posted on 9/15/21 at 5:36 pm to Bobby OG Johnson
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Bobby OG Johnson
You gonna bring us some fresh memes or what, my baw?
Posted on 9/15/21 at 5:39 pm to ibldprplgld
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And yet, instead of making the infrastructure improvement to bury the lines, they just keep putting up more poles
Oh I’m sorry, would you prefer people not have power for months while they planned and staged bores? Do you think it’s just as simple as “sticking wires in the ground”?
Posted on 9/15/21 at 5:40 pm to ibldprplgld
You really want to be without power for even longer huh?
I forgot. This board is full of electrical engineers.
I forgot. This board is full of electrical engineers.
This post was edited on 9/15/21 at 5:41 pm
Posted on 9/15/21 at 5:43 pm to Turf Taint
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Is there no way to bury a percentage of these lines every year as well as every hurricane repair?
No way man. That's too expensive and it might actually make the powergrid less susceptible to being constantly destroyed by storms.
We can't have that.
Posted on 9/15/21 at 5:44 pm to jimbeam
Electrician here… can confirm that it would take 4x as long to design, purchase material and install underground services. We were 22 days without after Laura. Was plenty long enough.
Posted on 9/15/21 at 5:49 pm to LSUdude73
It’s fine man. We got FEMA generators.
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