Earlier this evening we had the misfortune of being without power. This predicament is fairly common in our area thanks to a few irresponsible homeowners who live down the road. It seems they allow their trees to become severely overgrown with vines and these vines then attach themselves to the power lines.

Now, I am no electrician… the electrician in the family is my brother, William. However, I am thinking that these overgrown vines must put some kind of strain on the power lines because every time the vines become out of control it blows a fuse in the street transformer!

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