Re: Missing the point? I think not. Re: Kentucky "disaster" man-made

Telamon wrote:


Which has naught to do with the question of overhead VS underground power lines.

Now answer the question you originally posed.


I said you either bury the power lines or trim the trees. Doing nothing because it may be a long time before there's a storm is gambling with people's lives.

We used to be better than that. We are a mediocre second-rate shithole country nowadays.
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