DTE is not in the business of installing lights. I'm sure they'd much rather sell the electricity like they've been doing for how many dozen years. And remember that just like they did when they pulled them down, they'd simply contract out the job to someone else.
By taking down the equipment, they've added an unncessary complication for Highland Park city hall were they to decide to have the lights back up and working again. The added cost to re-install the lights (unless absorbed by DTE over many years) will only postpone any decision to turn them on again. This is still a stupid decision on the part of DTE - unless the money saved in lower insurance costs makes up the difference over 5 or 10 years.
We have a regular treated wood pole off the street next to our driveway and steps leading up to the house and we pay Alabama Power a few bucks a month for a HPS pole light which lights up the front yard and a good bit of the neighbors yards and street. The only city provided lights are at intersections. The light does help keep a lot of goblins away and lets us see what the dogs are barking at. ^_^
I'm not worried about my Canuck friends, it's the OTC who may try to slip in from the Northern border. All the Canadians I know are cool (no pun intended) folks. ^_^
[Theremin music in the background] In the future, cities will be lighted by small artificial suns developed by scientists working in the field of nuclear fusion. These small suns will be attached to small blimps floating over sections of the city and can be moved around to provide additional light to a section if some event requires it. ^_^
Yes. Dimebox, Texas is almost all dark, while Cut-N-Shoot is not much better. Pflugerville is coming along nicely.
We have long lines at the border of folks trying to get in. Fortunately, we have street-lights all along the Louisiana border. New Mexico, not so much.
He would, and does, to buy stuff that he can't get in Canada.
Even if it's only 37, in the words of our Secretary of Homeland Security, "Thirty-seven is too many."
The pole will come down someday. DTE takes it down, it falls down from lack of maintenance, or some driver knocks it into the street where it is hit by a station wagon full of illegal aliens and their seven children, killing all but one infant.* Perhaps DTE, looking at the insurance premium they have to pay on each pole, decide they could come out ahead by taking the poles down now.
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Lest you think I jest, the all-steel, 30' pole in front of my house - on a straight street - was hit during the night and completely uprooted! It fell across my driveway, narrowly missing my car and probably the cat.
The next morning, my son and I surveyed the debris field. We found a lens cover from a turn indicator. Running the part number down (it wasn't easy) we discovered it came from a Chevy S-10 pickup. Imagine how a girl-sized pickup could knock a 14" diameter steel pole twenty feet. It boggles the mind.
The story gets better. Three times during the next two weeks I called the pole people, asking politely for them to move it from my driveway. No luck.
From the backyard, I got a 15' fallen tree limb and stuck it in the hole formerly occupied by the street lamp. I placed a small kerosene lamp near the top. I then emailed a picture of the result to the service department of the light company along with the message: "No hurry, I replaced it."
The pole was moved the next day.
Wait, it gets better.
I didn't see who moved the pole, but I did see where they moved it. They moved this 30', dented, steel pole to the road median! That's exactly what they did, they simply drug it out of the way!
There the pole rested for about a month until (I guess) one night some passing urban fairies cut it up for scrap and hauled it off.
I must be missing something, because I have no idea what you're talking about.
Is metal theft so bad in Texas that it's darkened the streets of so many towns, causing a street-light shortage?
Or did these towns not have street lighting in the first place, and they're thinking that now is a good time to get some?
Or did a bunch of tornados rip them up over the summer, causing a street light shortage?
Explanation required.
Who's he?
Oh the horror of Canadians doing some cross-border shopping in the US!
Oh the tragedy of the added commerce and sales to those destitute US border cities!
News Flash: I wouldn't call it an illegal crossing when a Canadian drives over to the US to do some shopping - and then returns back to Canada later that day. Wouldn't it be great if Mexicans were doing the same thing?
By the way, are you harry's cousin, or something? Don't forget, if the US didn't exist, Canada (at least in current recognizable form) probably would not, either. The countries grew up together, albeit along different paths.
Heh. Thank your god for turning Texas into Mexico North.
I've been to Texas many times. Lubbock, Dallas, Austin, Houston, San Antonio. Each one at least 4 times over the past 15 years (except for Lubbock - only been there once). Galveston a few times. North Padre Island once for a week's vacation.
In general, we like them. These immigrants are, for the most part, exactly the kind of folks we want: Hard working, industrious, willing to place their faith in their own abilities, take a chance on building a better life for themselves and their families.
As opposed to some of the immigrants from New Orleans that I mentioned earlier.
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