And he has persuaded state lawmakers to hold public tree and power-line hearings in advance of February's legislative session.
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One would think that some of the most important roads in town would be cleared by now, but we really have no way of knowing how the priority list of tree and power work is being determined.
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Cordero said he is unemployed, having recently been laid off from his job as a tree trimmer for a power company.
Areas of the north San Fernando Valley experienced outages as tree branches tangled with power lines in at least two areas, said Michelle Vargas, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.
Weather Service meteorologist Todd Heitkamp in Sioux Falls said that office had reports of ice accumulations from one-quarter of an inch up to nearly half an inch, leading to power outages and widespread tree damage.
Hundreds of thousands of people along the south coast of New England, from Connecticut to Massachusetts remain in the black with downed power lines, massive tree damage and in some cases, total destruction of beach front properties from Narragansett, Rhode Island to the iconic Boardwalk of Atlantic City.
Will anyone need help if power goes out or a tree blocks a road?
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The authorities blame unexpected storms, tree branches falling on high-voltage power lines (as in the Italian example) and other acts of nature.
More than 20 elderly residents at an apartment home in Indianapolis were displaced when the facility lost power due to a downed tree.
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He used his considerable local power to build wide, tree-lined streets, a fancy new city auditorium and a magnificent, colorfully lit Prismatic Electric Fountain in the city's Ferril Lake.
"Several tree limbs were down across the property and power was lost for nearly 30 minutes, " it said.
On the main street near our house, a very large maple tree had snapped in half and was festooned with power lines, blocking half the road.
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Besides its effect on bird populations, the snakes also take an economic toll on Guam by causing numerous power outages each year when they cross from tree into electrical lines, the FWS says.
Still, 50mph sustained winds is enough to break tree limbs and cause coastal flooding, other than knocking out power.
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There's a tractor-trailer overturned near a tree, and the only upright and functioning truck on this road is driven by men from the local power cooperative.
Ron Morano, a spokesman for Jersey Central Power and Light, where essentially all of its 1.1 million customers lost power, said the company was looking at ideas that include putting some sub stations underground and more aggressive tree-trimming.
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