Recent comments in /f/newhampshire

Madisonnnnnnnnnnnn51 t1_jc7450p wrote

Reply to What is the deal with the NH grid? by decayo

New Hampshire is simply a hard place to make electricity work. If you put power lines above ground, you expose them to trees, of which we have a ton, that blow over onto the power lines. If you put power lines below ground, you get even more problems. For one, not every area even has smooth enough ground to do this, and in the areas that do, you often have to deal with our higher water table which can flood the underground lines and ruin them over time, and when they break it takes like 10x as long to fix. In addition to that, underground power is too expensive and isn't cost effective for most areas, considering this is a rural state.

For both systems, you also have to realize that they're both more likely to be damaged by nature in this part of the country than really anywhere else. Utilities need to keep crews available for issues like this, but keeping too many line workers on hand would cost an insane amount of money just to bring power back a little quicker during a storm. That's why we often get crews coming up from as far south as Florida to work on our power when a storm comes through. It just takes a lot of time and a lot of people to fix the power once it breaks.

The nature that we enjoy so much here in New Hampshire is also the reason our infrastructure is more unreliable. It's not anybody's fault, just simply the environment we live in.

And below is me being pedantic:

It's not necessarily the grid that's the problem, the grid is doing what it's supposed to. It's the local distribution that is the problem, being streetside power lines.

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MontEcola t1_jc739l9 wrote

Reply to It was probably a bad day to go for a walk by Vertex138

On that day, walk is the perfect thing to do.

I was living in Seattle in 1998-99. We had something like 145 days of cloudy weather in a row. Mt. Baker Ski area had over 1,100 inches of snowfall that winter. I was outside walking every single day. Or snowshoeing, x-c skiing or something.

And I did not notice the gloomy grey weather. It was only when the sun came out and I heard other people talk about dark it had been that I realized what just happened.

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IntelJoe t1_jc71xel wrote

Reply to Snow total check-ins.... by akmjolnir

In Hampton, RAAAAAIIIIIINNNNNNNNN

Portsmouth, coming down as snow but the ground is still warmer so nothing sticking yet.

Exeter, kinda dicey.

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NHGuy t1_jc71gpg wrote

Reply to What is the deal with the NH grid? by decayo

Has anyone mentioned that wet, heavy, sticky snow (like we are getting right now) on the lines themselves can take them down? That's just a fact and no amount of tree maintenance can do a thing about it

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ShireSkiBum t1_jc71fix wrote

Reply to Free agents looking to settle for the next 30 years: HELP! by [deleted]

def not for you and you will burn your 3rd change.....this almost feels like a troll post, lol. You have too many opinions and already leave places when the going gets tough. NH is cold. On a more serious note, you should just visit. NH is small enough where everyone's opinion is possibly localized to their specific area so anything i say may not apply to another town or area. I would honestly recommend something in the south eastern NH where the major cities of MA/ME are relatively close. If you're going to be hermits, just look up the town with the least zoning rules so you can do whatever you want with your property.

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