Phil Ochs – No Christmas in Kentucky

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"Let's drink a toast to congress and a toast to Santa Claus, and a toast to all the speeches that bring the loud applause, there's not enough to give, no, there's not enough to share, so, let's drown the sounds of sorrow with a hearty Christmas cheer ...

"No, they don't have Christmas in Kentucky, there's no holly on a West Virginia door, for the trees don't twinkle when you're hungry, and the jingle bells don't jingle when you're poor ...

"Have a merry, merry Christmas and a happy new year's day, for now's a time of plenty and plenty's here to stay, but if you knew what Christmas was, I think that you would find, that Christ is spending Christmas in the cold Kentucky mine."

Why power flickers in severe weather. ⚡

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Why power flickers in severe weather. ⚡

Typically a tree limb will hit a power line, which causes a short and a surge at substation which causes an auto resetting breaker to trip. If it’s a small enough limb , the voltage will burn up the limb or the force of the electricity will repel the limb.

Back at the substation auto resetting breaker will reclose and try again a few times to test if the momentary fault is corrected before finally shutting down the line until a technician can clear the fault.

Land Use, Orleans County, NY

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Orleans County west of Rochester along Lake Ontario has a lot of acres of field crops grown, except right on the Niagara Escarpment which is more infertile and rocky.