Smitty Two wrote in
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Han wrote:

There needs to be sufficient investment to make transmission
lines and substations more resilient, MUCH more resilient to these
storms. It is inexcusable that street level work has to wait 3 or
more days because those higher levels of infrastructure need to be
repaired. IMO (not an engineer at all), those parts of
infrastructure need to be strengthened very much. Ideally, the
street level infrastructure needs to be hardened as well, either by
going underground, or by really sverely trimming trees.

Under the ground in NYC is an absolute cluster **** of layers upon
layers upon layers of utilities that date back more than 100 years,
and much of it is not in good condition. For example, the water mains
that feed the entire city are controlled by enormous valves that are
more than 100 years old, long overdue for replacement, yet cannot be
shut off because they're afraid they would crumble and fail
catastrophically. Which, eventually, they will, even if they don't
touch them.

I think there are plenty of documentaries out there that detail our
crumbling infrastructure fairly well. Maybe we should give up being
the world's thug and start a new WPA with the money.

At the moment they are rather far into finishing another main water
supply tunnel into NYC. With incredible foresight grin they are hoping
that will be completed before one or another of the 2 old tunnels, or
their valves, fail(s).

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Best regards
Han
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