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1 edit | Re: [General] Some Wilma Shots said by Rob  :FPL's failure to properly maintain their wood poles have caused many residents to be without power. I hope they get slammed with some hefty fees. And I'm sure you have all the proper documentation of their failure.
Besides what one woman "claimed" in a Sun-Sentinal article I aw today.
The picture of a concrete pole broken in half shows how powerful the winds actually were.
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| Re: [General] Some Wilma Shots said by mikes60 :said by Rob :FPL's failure to properly maintain their wood poles have caused many residents to be without power. I hope they get slammed with some hefty fees. And I'm sure you have all the proper documentation of their failure. Besides what one woman "claimed" in a Sun-Sentinal article I aw today. The picture of a concrete pole broken in half shows how powerful the winds actually were. Well not a woman. But a man...
»www.sun-sentinel.com/news/column···news-col
If it's true, then my comment stands.
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mikes60
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1 edit | Re: [General] Some Wilma Shots said by Rob :said by mikes60 :said by Rob :FPL's failure to properly maintain their wood poles have caused many residents to be without power. I hope they get slammed with some hefty fees. And I'm sure you have all the proper documentation of their failure. Besides what one woman "claimed" in a Sun-Sentinal article I aw today. The picture of a concrete pole broken in half shows how powerful the winds actually were. Well not a woman. But a man... » www.sun-sentinel.com/news/column···news-colIf it's true, then my comment stands. In your original comment, you failed to say, "if it's true"
I have one personal rule- never assume newspaper columnists and politicians are telling the story accurately. One has to sell papers, the other has to get re-elected.
Not exactly the best reason for unbiased comments.
By the way, here's the one from a woman:»www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/···eadlines
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| Re: [General] Some Wilma Shots said by mikes60 :said by Rob :said by mikes60 :said by Rob :FPL's failure to properly maintain their wood poles have caused many residents to be without power. I hope they get slammed with some hefty fees. And I'm sure you have all the proper documentation of their failure. Besides what one woman "claimed" in a Sun-Sentinal article I aw today. The picture of a concrete pole broken in half shows how powerful the winds actually were. Well not a woman. But a man... » www.sun-sentinel.com/news/column···news-colIf it's true, then my comment stands. In your original comment, you failed to say, " if it's true"I have one personal rule- never assume newspaper columnists and politicians are telling the story accurately. One has to sell papers, the other has to get re-elected. Not exactly the best reason for unbiased comments. By the way, here's the one from a woman:» www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/···eadlines Whether I said "if it's true" or not, means nothing.
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| Re: [General] Some Wilma Shots I have seen it first hand,all the poles i used to have to climb(one of the few who did:D).Shell rot was terrible on most of the poles.Most of the pole's look okay but are rotten below the ground,as in the pics Splitpair showed.Before i used to climb i would take my long straight blade screw and jab the pole below ground level,and if it went all the way down to the handle thats bad,but i use to climb it anyway cause you couldnt get a ladder to it,or a bucket truck.Remember those days in the ranches Wanye:D. | |
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| Re: [General] Some Wilma Shots said by LightSpan :Before i used to climb i would take my long straight blade screw and jab the pole below ground level,and if it went all the way down to the handle thats bad,but i use to climb it anyway cause you couldnt get a ladder to it,or a bucket truck. ::shaking my head:: Bad move, very bad. I always took the safety motto very literally, ain't nothing getting me up a rotten pole on hooks, sorry. There's always some other way to get the job done that doesn't involve you ending up in the ER. | |
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Here | Re: [General] Some Wilma Shots Everyone's done some variant of that. Usually involving a mid-span clamp though.
I couldn't stomach working in St. Bernard after Katrina. The smell was just too awful in some places. The dust and such burned up my sinuses. | |
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| Forget the woman. What about the other person in that article who said that a tree has been growing out of a pole and they've been reporting it for 3 years? Or the contractors FP&L hired to remove the downed polls that said they were some of the most rotten polls they have ever seen? There were several more examples, but you get the point. | |
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| said by mikes60 : And I'm sure you have all the proper documentation of their failure. No but I have seen it.
The picture of a concrete pole broken in half shows how powerful the winds actually were.
Not when it was pulled over by a defective wood pole supporting a transformer bank.
This is the base of a failed pole that was supporting 235 Kv transmission lines. Nice eh?
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| Re: [General] Some Wilma Shots I first hand believe FPL has not inspected their wooden poles. My neighborhood is filled with old rotten wooden poles that always get knocked down and not necessarily in the strongest of winds.
A couple of tropical storms ago a wooden pole on my lawn fell onto my driveway, not during the winds but about 4 days later causing my block to go without power for 2 days and me without power for about 2 weeks. The replacement pole looks it was picked up on the street on the way here.
I agree that politicians and newspapers aren't always credible but CEO's aren't any better.
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Here | Re: Poles 101 I have a picture of what's left of a CO out in Lake Catherine, La. It's completely gone except for the support beams.
I have some pics of the storm damage in the New Orleans area but haven't gotten around to uploading them. | |
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