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thegreatgazoo t1_j7nzs5o wrote

Reply to comment by Chief_Beef_ATL in It could be another week before some Austin Energy customers get power back by geoxol

In places with a lot of snow, the trees get knocked down before they get bad. They also tend to get snow versus ice, which is a completely different ballgame with trees. The snow tends to fall off trees with the wind. Not so with ice.

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Chief_Beef_ATL t1_j7p4en6 wrote

I'm in ATL. All we get is ice. Trim trees near power lines. Sometimes trees or limbs fall on lines and you have repairs. I thought TX also had overloads aka we haven't built enough new infrastructure to handle our expanding needs. This isnt an unsolvable riddle. They ignored the problem.

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