Thanks to charitable funds, we were able to help Kristina buy a MetroCard so she could be at the bedside of both children; we also provided some financial assistance to help her pay mounting utility bills.
Solar panels mounted on utility poles would not rotate as the sun crosses the sky, which means they would produce peak amounts of power for only about six hours a day, or less time if it is cloudy or snowing.
Webcams and sensors mounted on utility poles can provide security at substations and notify the utility if power goes out.
Automatic license plate reading cameras, mounted on utility poles, bridges and police patrol cars, have been coming under fire as they've been rolled out across the country.
Highway 12 also has money in Telemetric, a firm in Boise that uses wireless communicators, mounted on utility poles, to alert power companies to outages.
It is available now for $100 and includes the antenna, all the elements for mounting, a utilities disc and an illustrated installation guide, in case you're not intimidated by their scary warning.
Permissions to mount monitors on utility poles were obtained from Duquesne Light Co., Verizon, Inc., Allegheny County Parks Department, and the City of Pittsburgh Department of Public Works.
Some suggestions are ceiling mounted storage, wall mounted peg boards, hooks, utility shelves, wall-mounted shelving units, or re-purposed furniture (like bookshelves, crates piled up or nailed to the wall, or an over toilet storage cabinet).
SEVERAL months after they settled into their new home in this hamlet of Mount Pleasant, Verusha and Michael Raguso first heard the noise: a sustained, primal wail blaring from a siren mounted on a utility pole on the corner of their property.
