Mr. Luddite wrote:
A day of heavy, wet snow up here took down tree limbs causing the first
power outage we've had in about three years. Even last
winter with 5 blizzard type storms in 7 weeks and over 100" of snow
didn't cause any outages.

The crap today wasn't typical snow. It was more like 8-9 inches of
white slush. When I plowed it created rolls of water.

Fortunately, the outage wasn't too long. About 3 hours. I took a
ride around town and saw three trees that had been set ablaze by
having their limbs droop down on the high voltage lines. 13,500 volts
tends to do that.





Just coming from our friends in Pebble Beach. Week or so ago, we had
brief, very high winds. Maybe 30 minutes at our house. Pebble Beach is
littered with down trees. At least one cut a house in half, trapping the
lady inside.