Overhead power lines are supported on porcelain insulators that are unaffected by outdoor exposure.
But the familiar 20th-century landscape of overhead power lines is not going away.
There was also a network of overhead power lines that prevented any development".
Overhead power lines can get knocked down by wind or snow or a car accident.
By 7 p.m., Mr. Clendenin said, the two overhead power lines were functioning properly again.
It would also break a stalemate; New York has not had a major new overhead power line in 20 years.
Concerns about the public-health effects of overhead power lines were first outlined in a paper in 1979.
Instead of overhead power lines, the developer put in underground utility lines, and installed submersible transformers, Mr. Romski said.
If the god Wotan got caught in an overhead power cable, this is what he would sound like.
A Eurostar spokesman said: "Our trains are currently delayed because of overhead power supply problems in the Eurotunnel".
One car of a Brussels-bound train was destroyed by the collision, and several cars were forced high enough into the air to sever overhead power lines.
