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Originally Posted by nota
those are the worst for power outages locally
every hard rain they go down
good idea but hard to do right in low areas with a high water table
esp if done on the cheap by land developers
last bad hurricane the power was off then on then off for days as they fixed the system
we had extension cords running across the street to send power from the working side
or the guys with bigger generators sharing several homes with power
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No doubt underground is not a panacea. Our area is on the top of a hill. One are of the neighborhood lost power last summer, and it was a bad underground common wire. The power company sent of 5 or 6 crews, from contractors the company personnel trying to figure out where the problem was. They fore spent money (their money no cost to us) to find the problem. The good news is that leg only ran the sprinkler system for the a association. They did track it down and fixed it.