Re: Pams lighening

Think? I'm not sure they can think. This is truly a different kind of place.
zem
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kitty" <kmrsy@comcast.net>
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48% How do these kids think they will make a living?

Kitty
neIN, Z5
----- Original Message ----- From: "Zemuly Sanders" <zsanders@midsouth.rr.com>
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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>
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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>
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> 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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