[Leica] [OM] IMG: Around the Home Place

[Christopher Crawford]

Cables on poles are still very common in the USA. My father is retired
from GTE, which was the phone company here in Fort Wayne (It is now part
of Verizon). He was manager of construction for GTE for all of northeast
Indiana. He told me that poles here often carry electric, telephone, and
cable TV all on the same pole. The utilities have agreements to share
poles.

In the older parts of Fort Wayne, everything is still on poles. In newer
areas, everything is buried. They¹re gradually moving the old stuff to
underground because the poles need to be replaced periodically and they
are getting expensive. In addition to poles simply wearing out from age, a
HUGE number are replaced before the end of their normal service life
because idiots get drunk and drive cars into them, breaking them.

Each pole is a single pine tree! In the past, the poles were cheap, so the
utilities didn¹t mind using them. It was easier than burying cable. That¹s
changing now.

-- 
Chris Crawford
Fine Art Photography
Fort Wayne, Indiana
260-437-8990

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On 11/11/16, 1:28 AM, "LUG on behalf of Nathan Wajsman"
<lug-bounces+chris=chriscrawfordphoto.com at leica-users.org on behalf of
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>I used to work for an electric cooperative in Tampa in the 1980s, serving
>large parts of rural North Florida, so I have seen a lot of the type of
>infrastructure you depict. I also see it in the villages I visit here in
>Spain when I am cycling in the interior. In Alicante, at least the part
>of town where we live, most cables are underground.
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>Cheers,
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>Alicante, Spain
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>> On 07 Nov 2016, at 21:12, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote:
>> 
>> I recently had my overgrown bushes trimmed, but saved these Nandina
>>berries for the birds.  If they wait long enough and let them ferment,
>>they will get "high" in the process.
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>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/For+the+Birds.TIFF.html
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>> Our small town has a well-maintained but old fashioned power grid. This
>>is how it appears at the back corner of my lot.  That fuse protects a
>>four square block area.  Most local outages are caused by squirrels or
>>falling tree branches.
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>>http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Old-Fashioned+Power+Grid.tif
>>.html
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>> Comments and critiques welcomed and appreciated.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
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