Yeah, you see birds sitting on highline wires all the time….. They can get away with it because their legs are too short for them to be able to touch more than one wire at a time and unless they fall with the wire, they’re not going to come in contact with the ground and the wire at the same time, therefore, the wires do not present a problem to them…..<\/p>\n
I want to take away this highline perch that birds seem to love because humans are not so lucky….. If we are not running into the poles that hold the wires or touching the wires with tent poles, Mother Nature’s knocking ’em down on us usually with electrifying results….. In Oklahoma, most of the rain we get (which isn’t much) is accompanied with thunderstorms, which result in power outages, which result in repairs, and we all know who pays for repairs: the customers….. This is a never-ending cycle and the electric companies are making a killing (or causing quite a few of them)…… Why do people just naturally accept as fact that power lines have to be above ground?…… Besides the ugliness of utility poles and highline wires all over the place, they’re really very, very dangerous…… I’m sure that when electricity came to Mayberry, above ground was about the only way the wire could be placed due to insulating problems, but I think the technology has existed for quite a while that allows for the wires to be placed underground, out of sight, out of Mother Nature’s way, and away from stupid humans…… I don’t see many, if any, power lines\/poles in downtown areas and high class shopping and eating complexes (in Oklahoma City that would be “BrickTown”, although I call it “PrickTown” because of the people who own it and how it came into being, but that is for another post)……<\/p>\n
I think that state and local governments should require electric companies to replace so many miles of existing above ground power lines with underground lines per year…. The electric companies already have a monopoly on the area that they serve, so why not force them to improve such service by providing better safety and a more reliable product for their customers at a reasonable cost…… What a concept!……..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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