yet again), and I was somewhat taken aback from the sheer number of trees, which a DUer did say that TX has a lot of trees. I always thought TX was mostly plains, no trees, etc. (I was wrong of course about that).
In Missouri, where we do have lots of trees (e.g., the Mark Twain Forest), lots of rivers running through the state, thus we have trees galore, they have taken a somewhat aggressive steps to trim tree foliage back from power poles and power infrastructure, all supposedly to reduce the number of outages due to tree debris against power poles etc. Also, we do have the occasional ice storms that hammer the state too. Of course, other steps can be taken such as metal poles vs. wood poles, in some areas put lines underground, etc.
Sure, they can't eliminate all of them at once (those trees whose limbs possibly could interfere w/ the power), but one must start somewhere. Perhaps in TX they can start and then continue the process as an ongoing process. Funny that the powers that be don't want to spend any more money than absolutely needed (so they can put more money in their pockets instead), but if one is not delivering power to customers, then no money is coming in for those days power is off.
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