What's more current than the weather? - Page 123

Undertoad · 11-15-2019, 09:28 AM

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It costs about $3 million per mile to convert underground electric distribution lines from overhead, while the cost to build a mile of new overhead line is less than a third of that, at approximately $800,000 per mile, according to a section on PG&E's website called Facts About Undergrounding Power Lines.

...PG&E, the state's largest utility, maintains approximately 81,000 miles of overhead distribution lines and approximately 26,000 miles of underground distribution lines. It also has about 18,000 miles of larger transmission lines, the majority of which are overhead lines.

At a cost of $3 million per mile, undergrounding 81,000 miles of distribution lines would cost $243 billion. PG&E has 16 million customers; distributing that expense equally would amount to a bill of more than $15,000 per account.

USA Today source

xoxoxoBruce · 11-15-2019, 09:39 AM

$243 Billion, so what? Deficits don't matter, and while they're being buried rake the woods.

Urbane Guerrilla · 11-28-2019, 10:48 PM

Oh, yeah: heavy rain today in L.A. and surrounding counties, ushering me out of a six-day hospital stay and vascular surgery with hi-tech roto-rooters. So minimally invasive you only seem to need local anaesthetic: I can be certain they used Lidocaine when they finally (it was complicated, they had trouble getting the blood flowing and had to de-clot and rooter my leg veins again) withdrew the artery catheter.

glatt · 11-29-2019, 05:50 AM

Urbane, I’m glad that ordeal is over for you and hope the procedure is completely effective.

fargon · 11-29-2019, 07:10 AM

We will pray for your swift recovery.

Griff · 12-01-2019, 10:29 AM

Good luck man, get out and about.

Urbane Guerrilla · 12-03-2019, 11:33 PM

Thanks, you guys, you're wonderful. Trying to recover from the infection I went in for -- trying to score an appointment to get the plantar sore treated -- where this all started. I will use, once arranged, a post-op monster-boot to take the load off there. Until then, am gimping about on a cane and being veeeery strategic about how much moving around I do. Outing and abouting may be a bit of a struggle for a little while. Living on antibiotics and Tylenol.

The weatherweenies are advising us to be ready for heavy rain tomorrow as another storm blows through SoCal. We're having the seasonal 'atmospheric river' which is bringing moisture. Not sure if they used to call it the 'Pineapple Express.'

tw · 12-05-2019, 08:27 PM

Now that they removed it, can you still tell that it is going to rain?

Urbane Guerrilla · 12-07-2019, 11:30 PM

Aaahh... I gotta look out the window, and listen for the downspouts in heavier rainfall, and rain pattering on the nearest carport roof in lighter.

We only get rains in winter, and a good rainfall is appreciated.

Gravdigr · 12-16-2019, 12:25 PM

Man, it is coming a piss-pouring flood atm. It's really coming down.

Thinkin' 'bout buildin' a boat...

glatt · 12-16-2019, 04:27 PM

At least it’s a cold, raw, dark rain. We got that going for us.

Griff · 12-16-2019, 05:30 PM

See, ya gotta look at the bright side.

Winter Storm is afoot.

tw · 12-16-2019, 05:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Griff

Winter Storm is afoot.

My foot looks nothing like winter.

xoxoxoBruce · 12-16-2019, 10:45 PM

If you had a foot you'd be living large in the center of the CA porn industry.

Griff · 12-17-2019, 02:58 PM

Just ice here. Snow to the North.

11-15-2019, 09:39 AM	#2
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	$243 Billion, so what? Deficits don't matter, and while they're being buried rake the woods. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

11-28-2019, 10:48 PM	#3
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Oh, yeah: heavy rain today in L.A. and surrounding counties, ushering me out of a six-day hospital stay and vascular surgery with hi-tech roto-rooters. So minimally invasive you only seem to need local anaesthetic: I can be certain they used Lidocaine when they finally (it was complicated, they had trouble getting the blood flowing and had to de-clot and rooter my leg veins again) withdrew the artery catheter. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

11-29-2019, 07:10 AM	#5
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12-01-2019, 10:29 AM	#6
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Good luck man, get out and about. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

12-03-2019, 11:33 PM	#7
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Thanks, you guys, you're wonderful. Trying to recover from the infection I went in for -- trying to score an appointment to get the plantar sore treated -- where this all started. I will use, once arranged, a post-op monster-boot to take the load off there. Until then, am gimping about on a cane and being veeeery strategic about how much moving around I do. Outing and abouting may be a bit of a struggle for a little while. Living on antibiotics and Tylenol. The weatherweenies are advising us to be ready for heavy rain tomorrow as another storm blows through SoCal. We're having the seasonal 'atmospheric river' which is bringing moisture. Not sure if they used to call it the 'Pineapple Express.' __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

11-29-2019, 05:50 AM	#4
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Urbane, I’m glad that ordeal is over for you and hope the procedure is completely effective.

12-05-2019, 08:27 PM	#8
tw Read? I only know how to write. Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 11,933	Now that they removed it, can you still tell that it is going to rain?

12-07-2019, 11:30 PM	#9
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Aaahh... I gotta look out the window, and listen for the downspouts in heavier rainfall, and rain pattering on the nearest carport roof in lighter. We only get rains in winter, and a good rainfall is appreciated. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

12-16-2019, 12:25 PM	#10
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	Man, it is coming a piss-pouring flood atm. It's really coming down. Thinkin' 'bout buildin' a boat... __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

12-16-2019, 04:27 PM	#11
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	At least it’s a cold, raw, dark rain. We got that going for us.

12-16-2019, 05:30 PM	#12
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	See, ya gotta look at the bright side. Winter Storm is afoot. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

12-16-2019, 10:45 PM	#14
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	If you had a foot you'd be living large in the center of the CA porn industry. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

12-17-2019, 02:58 PM	#15
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Just ice here. Snow to the North. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

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