Re: Pams lighening

48%  How do these kids think they will make a living?

Kitty
neIN, Z5
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zemuly Sanders" <zsanders@midsouth.rr.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 12:10 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Pams lighening


> Our stupid county has a kind of gnawing machine that is uses to 'trim'
trees
> along the roadsides.  The result is just god-awful -- almost as bad as the
> result of their using lots of weed & brush killer along the shoulders of
the
> roads.
>
> Incidentally, in a recent study of high school graduation rates, our
county
> scored 48%.  That should give you an idea of the mind set here.
>
> zem
> zone 7
> West TN
>
>  <sundrops@earthlink.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005
> lighening
>
>
> > Here in the Sierra foothills, the local utility hires a private company
> > who spends all their time cutting away branches from power lines.  This
is
> > not for winter storms so much as the fact that ten years ago a local
wild
> > fire was started by a branch coming down on a power line.  The fire
burned
> > many thousands of acres, including the area where my house now stands.
> > The county sued the utility and won a substantial precedent-setting
damage
> > award -- and the utility company apparently got the message.
> > --Barb, Grass Valley CA
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: <Aplfgcnys@aol.com>
> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 4:15 AM
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] Pams lighening
> >
> >
> >> Andrea, around here we are told that it is more "cost effective" -
> >> that is cheaper - to repair downed power lines than to prune
> >> away overhaning branches and remove dead trees that are
> >> destined to fall across lines and roads when a blow comes
> >> through - or an early fall ice storm such as we have many
> >> years.
> >> Auralie
> >>
> >> In a message dated 07/14/2005 10:38:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> >> hodgesaa@earthlink.net writes:
> >> David, what alternate reality are you living in? This is the south.
Many
> >> times we don't go forward, we go backwards. I will concede that some of
> >> our
> >> phone and power lines in new subdivisions are buried, however, it's
just
> >> TOO difficult to bury those old ones that get blown out in every storm.
> >> Don't get me started.
> >>
> >> Andrea H
> >>
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