"John Hall" wrote in message
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In article ,
Simon Wyndham writes:
It brings up another problem however. Within half an hour of the
snow
falling what should happen but the power goes off! So am I to assume
that not only do the people of this country have any resilience to
snow, the stuff we used to get loads of in Winter, but the power
lines
have somehow become extra weak over the years?!

Get heavy wet snow that then freezes to the power lines as the
temperature quickly falls, coupled with high winds, and some power
outages are inevitable. They have certainly commonly occurred in these
conditions in years gone by. Putting all power lines underground would
be prohibitively expensive.


.... I notice from the traffic reports on CEEFAX that some road closures
in the West of England have been due to power lines being brought down.

Martin.
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