On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:37:44 -0500, "Mike Marlow"
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"krw" wrote in message
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On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:25:46 -0500, "Mike Marlow"
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"krw" wrote in message
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On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:55:30 -0600, Swingman wrote:

Pat Barber wrote:

Swingman wrote:


The Gulf Coast desperately needs a change to underground electrical
infrastructure due to the historical and ever present hurricane
threat.

In every house I build I try mightily to install an underground feed
from the pole/line to the new service even though it adds +/- $1k to
the cost, location and municipal building requirements permitting.

In North Carolina, you would be hard pressed to NOT
find a underground service. They made that the standard
here well over 30 years ago.

IL, NY, and VT, too. Not sure when they did it in AL (we've only been
here a year) but all the new developments are underground.

NY still has tons of overhead power. New services too. It's far from
mostly underground.

*NEW* developments are underground.

Not all. As recently as over the past 5 years, new developments have been
served by overhead from the 13K down the road, to the drop to the house.

Where was this. In the P'ok area it was a big deal in the '80s
because some would have had to cut through ledge to put in services.
It wasn't worth the bother so houses didn't get built.