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Yansi:
Okay, good you have the energy to fight then. I kind of resigned on some stuff in the world we live in.

I think both you and me know well (or at least now you know), that nobody gives a damn about that hanging thing, unless it indeed makes a trouble somewhere. Either by injury, property damage or service dropout (that will cause a potential money loss).

In an ideal world, a technician would be dispatched for a repair immediately. 

Halcyon:

--- Quote from: wn1fju on November 20, 2020, 02:05:15 pm ---Nice to see that nobody really gives a damn.

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Does it really matter if it's not impacting you/anyone? Someone will come along eventually and fix it up.

SpecialK:
Honestly, if you see something, say something.  Why all the apathy?  Isn't there some sort of "social contract", "sense of community", "it takes a village to raise a child", "civic obligation" or some sort notion.

Just report it to "town hall".  Whoever you pay your property taxes to.  It's their responsibility for the sidewalk to be safe.  If there's a tree branch in the way, they will trim it(if it's in their road allowance) or give the property owner a citation.warning.  Same here, they will get the utility to comply and have this taken care of.

SilverSolder:

--- Quote from: tooki on November 22, 2020, 01:03:25 pm ---[...] Having lived on the east coast of the USA for many, many years, partly at the edge of hurricane alley, partly squarely within it, it boggles my mind that USA continues to use above-ground wiring in hurricane-prone areas, running along heavily-forested roads, inevitably resulting in power outages every damned summer, affecting hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses each time. (And in winter when ice brings down wires.) Doing emergency repairs isn't free, and the lost inventory and lost productivity isn't free, either.

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I think this happens when it is cheaper to pay the wages & materials to fix the damage than it is to bury the cables.  Then there is the general inertia and "we've always done it this way" syndrome of large organisations (utilities, and governments).

Times are changing, though - it is gradually getting more expensive to keep fixing the damage, and Americans are beginning to understand that the utilities have externalised the cost of power interruptions - on them!   I know a local government official (that happens to have an engineering background) and he is constantly fighting for getting cables buried. 

It will happen, eventually, but it may take several decades....   but who knows, maybe there will be a big infrastructure investment programme in the USA (i.e. think about how China would do it) and all these things will be put right more quickly, along with brand new Internet infrastructure as well...

vk6zgo:

--- Quote from: Yansi on November 22, 2020, 06:04:33 pm ---Okay, good you have the energy to fight then. I kind of resigned on some stuff in the world we live in.

I think both you and me know well (or at least now you know), that nobody gives a damn about that hanging thing, unless it indeed makes a trouble somewhere. Either by injury, property damage or service dropout (that will cause a potential money loss).

In an ideal world, a technician would be dispatched for a repair immediately.

--- End quote ---

They don't have real technicians in Bizarro world where we live today.
Next door had a bad lead in cable from the Telstra cable pit, interrupting their ADSL, which one of the family needed for work, so they "growled" a bit, expecting nothing.

"Lo & behold!", along came a couple of Telstra blokes who, with my permission, ran a cable out of the pit, over my roof, & down to the neighbour's house.

Clever short term "workaround", thought I, but the thing ended up staying there for 18 months or more!

One downside of running the cable in that manner was that the gardeners would clip the wire, thinking it was a vine stem.
They had a couple of faults from that, but none of the "techs" thought it might be a good time to run another proper cable.

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