Coral Gables is filled with mature trees. It's beautiful, but it makes a problem. The tree huggers want the lines put underground. The city thinks that would be too expensive. Installing a underground grid would kill many trees. Then when a hurricane blows down some of the big old trees, underground lines will fail. Repair would be long and more expensive.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Electric Lines vs Trees
Coral Gables is filled with mature trees. It's beautiful, but it makes a problem. The tree huggers want the lines put underground. The city thinks that would be too expensive. Installing a underground grid would kill many trees. Then when a hurricane blows down some of the big old trees, underground lines will fail. Repair would be long and more expensive.
