0. Big trees broke off at about 20 metres above ground level. Their tops fell across, and wiped-out, our village's main power feed.
1. The power poles, being of lesser diameter than the fallen tree-tops, were shattered into flinders. The wires, however, survived.
2. Hydro crews climbed up the remaining tree trunks and chain-sawed their limbs off.
3. They then re-strung the wires onto the tree-trunks. Problem solved.
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As it turns out, the village had its own gravity-fed hydro plant about 110 years ago. The wires from that plant were strung from (you guessed it...) tree-trunks in the old forest.
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Date: 2019-01-22 01:58 pm (UTC)0. Big trees broke off at about 20 metres above ground level. Their tops fell across, and wiped-out, our village's main power feed.
1. The power poles, being of lesser diameter than the fallen tree-tops, were shattered into flinders. The wires, however, survived.
2. Hydro crews climbed up the remaining tree trunks and chain-sawed their limbs off.
3. They then re-strung the wires onto the tree-trunks. Problem solved.
- - - -
As it turns out, the village had its own gravity-fed hydro plant about 110 years ago. The wires from that plant were strung from (you guessed it...) tree-trunks in the old forest.