Thursday Proto Photo, May 20/21

[Lenny53]

Beaconsfield, QC May 21,2016

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[Albert in N]

   With the value of all that lumber, there should be a crew car with armed guards!  Also, the well designed and maintained infrastructure (electric lines, highway, and railroad track) stand out.  Living in Texas during the winter power outage, I notice the things that are as they should be in your photo.  Thanks for sending the photo!

[Lenny53]

the well designed and maintained infrastructure electric lines

then the ice storm hit

[davefoxx]

Yeah, I saw @Lenny53's photo and immediately thought, "Hell, yeah!  Deliver those building materials!"  Supply and demand, folks, and I'm hoping we can get life back to some semblance of normalcy someday.  Then I saw the date of the photo: 2016.  D'oh. 

DFF

[Albert in N]

Lenny's photo shows sturdy Canadian close-spaced metal post power lines that shouldn't break during a blizzard.  Texas transmission lines often are spaced a quarter of a mile between metal towers.  The wood pole line spacing is sparse enough that wire lines and posts often fail in a storm.  Then there is the Texas problem of deregulation of privately owned power plants.

[CNR5529]

Lenny's photo shows sturdy Canadian close-spaced metal post power lines that shouldn't break during a blizzard.

Tower design was a hard learned lesson...

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Ice storm 1998

[pjm20]

A DB switcher somewhere in Berlin in 2016:

[packers#1]

One solution is to bury them...that’s what the plant I work at now makes!

[Philip H]