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BigmanPigman

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19. In NYC at the turn of the century 1900
Thu Jul 22, 2021, 01:05 AM
Jul 2021

the electric and phone wires would break from the weight of snow on the lines and they would freeze and snap so they were all put underground. Then 100 years later and Hurricane Sandy came and everything underground got damaged by water. There is no good place to put lines sometimes. In the Western states the freezing won't be a major problem or the flooding...for now anyway.

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