It’s been really cold up here in the northland lately but he have heat, although there have been power outages nearby. Stay warm.
One of my best friends was an engineer at an electrical cooperative, and he told me horror stories about having to re-sync onto the power grid after a shutdown or outage. It sounds like the power grids are like a bunch of tinker toys held together with 50 year old rubber bands.
I am always happy when I can go outside and not worry about the weather killing me.
I think I would pass on the morning swim.
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do you refer to burying the lines vs. overhead supply?
Are those electrical wires dangling above the pool?
or indeed in it.....
There are multiple different causes of power failure, and the solution depends on the problem. Underground wires are one solution that solves several kinds of problems: wind doesn't touch them, ice accumulation doesn't knock them down, trees falling don't sever lines, airplanes don't crash into them, and car accidents don't knock them down. These are some of the most common causes of localized power failure. But burying lines is very expensive. There are places where it does, and where it doesn't make sense. For instance, every inch of the American Atlantic and Gulf coast will be hit by hurricanes, eventually. It's predictable and obvious. So burying power lines within, say, 5 miles of the coast would be a sensible preventative measure. In the particular parts of California where the Santa Ana Winds blow, burying the power lines is a sensible preventative measure. But places where earthquakes are more of a threat than wind, underground lines don't make sense.
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