how can a neighborhood without underground electric wires lose power?
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Tree falls on wire. Wire breaks. Electrons spill onto the ground, and no longer flow through the wire to your house. You have “lost power”. Even if the wire in your neighborhood is underground, that’s only to the substation. Except in Manhattan, almost all the medium voltage distribution wires in the US are above ground where arboreal evildoers can attack them freely.
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