BIG storms Michigan

[oldballs]

Same here in East Central Kansas....last night......a long display of thunder & lightening..........and 7.1 inches of rain so far at my place. Just some small limbs down however.

 

[cqaigy2]

Co-worker's son lives in Minnesota. The basement of their apartment building flooded and drown the electrical. They expect to be without power for two weeks, maybe more.

 

[sandman2234]

Trees in the electric lines is what causes our outages. They are replacing many of our lines with heavier cable that won't break when smaller limbs fall on them.

Sounds interesting, but wouldn't it work better to keep the trees trimmed in the close proximity of the power lines, since small limbs tend to grow to larger limbs? When a whole tree falls, the size of the cable probably won't matter, but how far it rips down power poles increases as the size of the conductor increases.
My thoughts on why they are increasing the size of the conductor may be more to do with demand and future demand than how big of limb it will prevent from breaking the cable.
David from jax

 

[arto98607]

Big storms in Michigan last few days around 800,000 without power.Still have power here in my location but tree damage.

You were lucky!

Wouldn't it be wise to plan ahead and remove any & all trees that could hit the house or a shop next time?

By our state law homeowner can do so - no questions asked.

Or so I have been told by a prof. logger - who knows how accurate that is, I just went ahead 20 years ago and did it.
Time to redo couple of small areas.

 

[coobie]

You were lucky!

Wouldn't it be wise to plan ahead and remove any & all trees that could hit the house or a shop next time?

By our state law homeowner can do so - no questions asked.

Or so I have been told by a prof. logger - who knows how accurate that is, I just went ahead 20 years ago and did it.
Time to redo couple of small areas.

Now thats funny.Being a retired tree trimmer and electric lineman I did plan ahead many years in fact.But when 80-90 ft trees fall(after living here 30 plus years) and still miss the house by 10ft.I feel we did plan ahead.

 

[arto98607]

Good for you, no problem.
By the photo it first looked like it could have hit the house if it had gone the other way, but I see now what you mean.

 

[coobie]

Good for you, no problem.
By the photo it first looked like it could have hit the house if it had gone the other way, but I see now what you mean.

Play for the wind I say..

 

[shooterdon]

I know a guy who works for the power company. He tells me tree trimming is way down to save money.

We were spared the worst of it. One limb nearly hit one of the trucks.

 

[cqaigy2]

Sounds interesting, but wouldn't it work better to keep the trees trimmed in the close proximity of the power lines, since small limbs tend to grow to larger limbs? When a whole tree falls, the size of the cable probably won't matter, but how far it rips down power poles increases as the size of the conductor increases.
My thoughts on why they are increasing the size of the conductor may be more to do with demand and future demand than how big of limb it will prevent from breaking the cable.
David from jax

They did similar here with the larger conductors and some kind of (technical term) slack springy thing. Trees hit the wire, it gives some, but doesn't break. Trips the circuit breaker, they cut it off and turn the power back one. Repeat as necessary.

 

[civilian]

I know a guy who works for the power company. He tells me tree trimming is way down to save money.

We were spared the worst of it. One limb nearly hit one of the trucks.

No problems around us in Vanderbilt. Wind and just over an inch of rain in an hour. Jon