Consider that a lot of Vermont wasn’t on the grid till the 1930’s when the Federal Government instituted the Rural Electrification Program . At that time , most of the State was still open fields and pasture and the early lines were installed the easiest routes which often didn’t follow roads. The end result is that a lot of our current grid in now buried in the grown-in forrest and often hard to access. These sections are very costly to keep cleared. The trimming crews show up on our farm every few years to hack back the growth along these lines. Storm damage repairs are time consuming and due to demographics, our isolated lines are often the last to be fixed. Such is life on the back roads of Vermont. Losing power 2-3 times a year is expected. It will be 100 years before our lines are buried.