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There are occassional outages. But the pylons are designed with icing in the mind and that does the difference. More outages are due to poorly trimmed trees fal
by rini17 4y ago
There are occassional outages. But the pylons are designed with icing in the mind and that does the difference. More outages are due to poorly trimmed trees falling on wires than ice itself. That usually affects only small area and can be fixed quickly.
- Scoundreller 4y agoIssue with the ice accretion is that when things get bad… they get very bad: https://www.rcinet.ca/en/2017/01/05/canada-history-jan-5-1998-the-deadly-ice-storm-of-the-century/ https://www.rcinet.ca/en/2017/01/05/canada-history-jan-5-199...