Date:         Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:41:36 -0800
Reply-To:     Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: falling trees
Comments: To: Shawn Wright <vwdiesels@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To:  <476894B6.12134.FECDA12@vwdiesels.gmail.com>
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Trees fall on things here all the time. Nothing underground on the Semiahmoo
Peninsula.

Last storm some 100' Doug Firs took out power lines in a few different spots
including all of Crescent Beach.  The one blocking Marine Drive was 4-5 feet
across - and I took out our woodstove this summer............

Drove my Vanagon to a client's house and chainsawed the big Alder off the
remains of his fence and re-built it.

On Dec 18, 2007 7:49 PM, Shawn Wright <vwdiesels@gmail.com> wrote:

> > DM&FS
> >
> > t 04:07 PM 12/18/2007, pete wrote:
> >
> > > >Actually trees falling on things are extremely unlikely
> > >
> > >well, I'd agree about not likely - but it does happen
>
> My street has underground power the entire length, with the exception of
> *two* poles at the
> ending cul-de-sac where the local utility was too cheap to use a ground
> transformer for a lift
> pump. In the five years since we built here, only three trees have come
> down across the road
> in storms, and all of them have landed on that one 75' section of wire...
> To make matters
> worse, BC Hydro seems to forgot these two lonely poles exist every time it
> happens, and
> drive around trying to find them!
>
>
> Shawn Wright
> http://members.shaw.ca/vwdiesels
> '88 Westy 1.6TD 5 speed
> '85 Jetta Diesel 1.6NA
>



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Jake
1984 Vanagon GL
1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
Crescent Beach, BC
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