So, about a year or so ago, the power company elected to replace most of the high voltage wires on our street with much heavier, stronger “tree wires” that are pretty dang good at catching a falling bit of foliage and not breaking, thus reducing both power outages and repair time. This is the second time they’ve done their job (although the first time the power did go out for a while, but repairs where greatly simplified). Progress! That said, I really think they should just run them underground anyway, our of harm’s way.