Nancy Young wrote:

Then, late last year, the power company came through and ground up
all the trees. They didn't chop them down, they had a stump grinder
gizmo on a big-ass boom that they raised up and turned the trees into
flakes from the top down! Sterilized the field, they did.

I'm a ****in' STOCKHOLDER in Centerpoint (the power company). I
called and raised more hell than the third monkey on Noah's gangplank
while all this was in progress and was told the company was REQUIRED
to cut down the trees by the Department of Homeland Security!

Bunch lying slugs, you ask me. Not even Homeland Security thinks
terrorists grow on trees!

They are doing the same thing near me, it has to do with keeping
the power grid safe. It's not the power company's rule, they are
forced to do it. A crying shame, I feel badly for the people
affected.
nancy

Yeah, but safe from WHAT?

Do the amorphous "they" think goblins are breeding in the mini-forests? Is
is possible a 60' tree, 150 feet from a 200,000 volt line that's 100 feet in
the air presents a problem? Are they afraid the emergency responders will
collide with Mister Oak while trying to find a downed line?

Bah!