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cooldude9919
join:2000-05-29

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Re: SLOW to get Insight services back up after ice storm

A good amount of cable MSO'S lines are ran overhead on poles just because it is cheaper to get pole permits from the electric company than to mess with going underground. The sheer size of the ice storm and amount of trees fallen which in turn took down tons of lines, snapped poles, ect, is pretty crazy. There are still people in SE Missouri without power, and ameren has something like 4k plus people working on it. If insight had lines on any poles that where snapped, they have to wait for the power company to put new poles up before they can even think of getting new lines ran.

You cant really compare this storm to previous outages, and it sounds like insight is doing their best to safely return service to people as quickly as possible.

CylonRed
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join:2000-07-06
Bloom County

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In one KY town - 300 poles were snapped - going to take awhile to get them back up...

HarleyDude
join:2002-01-04
Kennett Square, PA

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Not entirely true. Utility placement guidelines are "Zoned" just like property use. There are zoning rules for underground as well as aerial. Under the zoning rules, you can't place UG cables in an aerial zoned easement.