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TheodoeBhabrot t1_j1ho0yt wrote

Reply to comment by asdaaaaaaaa in At least 9 dead as massive winter storm leaves more than a million without power and bitter cold across much of US | CNN by bobybobobo

These big outages are cyclical in New England, we have a ton of trees and above ground lines, the power companies trim them the best they can in the summer but a big enough storm comes through and nature culls the ones they didn’t get to, causing these outages.

Then it’s usually a few years before the trees get to a state where they’re susceptible to this again, at least from pure wind.

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