Hi Mike
On (01 Feb 98) MIKE ROSS wrote to Alec Cameron...
 MR> It wasn't just the pylons that were destroyed. Utility poles were broken
 MR> about 3 ft off the ground the whole length of a road.
My tech teacher of Elec Design in 1948 was a Canadian called Arthur Blake,
and he described that as an American wood pole characteristic. [he was 
otable
for wearing a red bow tie, no other Sydney Tech College teacher wore a bow
tie!]. His story was that the Canadian ?softwoods were not so elastic- Aussie
hardwood poles would flex like green saplings and "bend not break".
So he said......
 MR> Now many people are starting to discover that the ice accumulation on
 MR> their roofs is creating structural problems.
Which probably would not have happened 100 years ago before we started 
utting
fibreglass insulation on the ceilings! Warm rooms, frozen attics.
 MR> The power is mostly back now, except for some 50,000 homes, but the
 MR> system is still very delicate and being held together by shoestrings.
And everyone of course, is using minimum power so as to assure reliability of
supply.
Cheers.....ALEC
... Good families are generally worse than any others [Anthony Hope]
--- PPoint 1.92
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