PG&E just cut power to 5800 upper Napa Valley residents

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5. Actually, it's not "tough" to bury transmission lines.

It's impossible. Those things carry 500,000 volts. Insulation for undergrounding them is not even remotely possible.

It's not about tree trimming, either. The power lines expand so much in hot weather that they sag low enough to touch shrubs and even grass. There is nothing that can be done about this. It is a trade off that is the price of bringing electric power to where we can use it. If towers were built higher the cost of building and maintaining them would be prohibitive. Consumers would not pay the price.

Sometimes nature, in the form of hot weather, is more powerful than the works of man. Sometimes we just have to suck it up and act with a modicum of humility.