On Thu, 18 Oct 2012 23:19:12 +0100, Michael Kilpatrick wrote:

I disagree. The fact that they allowed trees to grow to endanger their
(rather dangerous) power lines, or planted their overhead lines in the
vicinity of extant trees is in itself negligent in the first place.

Trees grow story end of. People plant trees under power lines, they grow.

One reported they have to act. The coud simply have switched the supply
off until the start of the next working day cut back the trees then
switched back on.

Which you prefer off from 1700 to 2000 or off from 1700 to 1200 next day?

What are you going to be like in a few years times when the lights start
to go out due to lack of generating capacity?

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Cheers
Dave.