… whether it be large plants, things like that, those types of things that otherwise could have caused a power line to go down or could be touching a power line, We have done over the past couple of years, more than ever, to remove that vegetation from lines that could be downed because of a winter storm like this. Another thing that the local power providers have done, they have replaced poles and have better, stronger, more capable poles than ever before. (07:22–07:33)
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Asserts increased efforts to remove vegetation near power lines to prevent outages during storms.
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