FavrionWhat do you call this place?
It's Maddie!Electric Avenue
TheOneWithTheHairAmerican Torii Gateways.
slurpeesoforionAnd then we take it higher
motorcycle revs
MelllvarStrips cut through forested areas like this are generally called fire breaks. I don’t know if there’s a more specific term for those beneath power lines.
Electric easement
The Dead Zone
Power lines.
The Iron Giant’s home
TroyUtility corridor. Sometimes a “Right of Way”.
I used the term Hydro line once on Reddit and had a lot of people asking what the hell I was talking about.
Are you Canadian by any chance? It’s common in Canada to call electrical utilities “hydro” whether there’s water generation or not. In the states they don’t do this as much. At least not in my experience.
Yup. I haven’t heard them called that, even though I’m in a state where most electricity is from hydro, And my state borders Canada.
Well hello there Washington citizen! WA is the only state in the US to get most of its electricity from hydro.
You’ve got a great river system up there and WA manages to put it all to great use. If the whole country had that kind of river network, perhaps we’d all be running on renewables…
Ah - I didn’t know we were the only ones who do. But yes, it’s nice to have that. I understand we also have the largest ferry system in at least the US, although I think that’s not directly related to the rivers.
guyrocketRight. Cause we're not looney.
Similarly, in the US we have “telephone poles” to carry residential power lines, even if there are no telecom wires on them.
I call them that sometimes, but mostly just “power lines.”
But what do you call the actual wooden pole that holds the power lines? Like if someone hit the pole how would you describe it?
Sometimes telephone pole, sometimes utility pole.
Utility poles. Could carry electricity and/or telephone and/or cable tv. In some places it may be home to street lights, sirens, emergency signals, fiber optic cables & junctions/splitters, or other infrastructure.
I sure am
To me “hydro line” sounds like a weird way to say “water pipe”.
Mostly because hydro means water. Of course that would be confusing.
I would call it a hydro corridor.
forty2Currents Through the Wild
Peaceful wooded area with power transmission.
the Cut. (Low and ominous)
Same, there was one by my home growing up and we all called it that.
“right of way”
It’s that scene from the Shining with the twins, being played by a couple of those giant robots I keep seeing on the hills while driving on I-5
Shambling ShapesEasement corridor for power lines.
Which park?
canitendtherabbitsI seriously have a fantasy about hiking/backpacking the length of one of these. I wonder if there's a legal way to do that.
GormadtI haven’t done the full length of one but I’ve gone pretty far down one before
Basically you just need to figure out who owns the land and depending on that would depend on if you can legally or not
When I did it though I didn’t check first because I was basically banking on the fact it was near a national forest so if someone stopped me I’d claim (accurately) that I didn’t know it wasn’t a part of the national forest. Of course I’m not sure if it is a part of it or not, but if I did get stopped at least I’d know for sure. I didn’t get stopped but I did have a nice day out there.
“Land of the free”, doesn’t have right to roam…
Because it’s not needed outside the eastern US. The vast majority of land around me is public and anyone can go out. Right to roam would just give me the right to trample through someone’s property when there’s plenty of public land to go around it with, which is what right to roam usually entails anyways.
This is genuinely a states issue and not something federal.
Walking very close to someone’s home is also illegal with the right to roam. The right to roam just gives everyone the right to walk were they want except in someone’s garden. You can also camp anywhere (gardens excluded of course) for a day (or two can’t remember) without asking anyone for permission.
One kinda surprising thing is that everyone is allowed to enter fenced animal pastures, provided that they aren’t malicious and that they close the gate.
It’s an amazing right that should exist in the entire world.
You don’t seem to understand that my house, my town, and the majority of my state, are massive amounts of public forest. I have every right to wander and camp, as long as I’m not squatting (which is it’s own mess of an issue where what counts “permanently inhabiting” an area), anywhere in that public forest.
Why would my state govt have any reason to enshrine a right that would just make more people trespass because they don’t understand the law? Those that follow that law would then have nothing change.
This is why I say it’s a states’ issue. This won’t be the same across the entire US.
Trespassing isn’t really an issue here so why would it be an issue there?
If it’s legal now, then passing a law country wide would be no issue.
I am just of the opinion that this should be right everywhere regardless of where you live in the world.
Btw, I am just curious, is it rare in the USA to see berry and mushroom pickers? That’s included in the rights so we do have a lot of them.
There are people who harvest wild food, yes. I think you need to understand that just our national forests are almost twice the size of the entirety of Sweden. Then there are state forests, national parks, and state parks. Texas alone is 50% larger than Sweden, and Alaska is 3x larger than Texas.
Sizes don’t matter.
I don’t get why you are so against it when it apparently wouldn’t change anything because you have so much land anyways.
Just give everyone the freedom to walk wherever they want. It doesn’t hurt anyone.
NGL I really wish we had that here
There’s some beautiful places that are cut off from people because of it being private property
The worst is when someplace becomes private property after being open to the public for a long time
YoBuckStopsHereThe Cancer Zone, avoid electrical easements.
Please get your medical advice from doctors and not social media.
I see you’re buying into the corporate propaganda. Guess who paid for “studies” to clear power companies from liability.
Here are a few of the conclusions from studies that have discovered a strong link between proximity to power lines and health problems:
Cancer: Exposure to power lines has been connected to cancer. Brain cancer is the most common type, but associations with breast cancer and leukemia have also been claimed;
Tumors: Some studies have shown associations between brain and other cancerous tumors and exposure to power lines.
Miscarriages;
Increased susceptibility to illnesses such as cancer;
Depression;
Electric shock;
Electrocution.
Please get your medical advice from doctors and not social media.
Please get your science information fro text books not youtube.
You live in a house that is lined with electrical wires but for some reason they are not an issue to you because no one has told you to be scared of them.
Do you also believe that fracking is clean and safe?
Do you always change the subject when you don't win an argument with the talking points you read online?
Changing the subject.
CosmicApeI mean, there's a bit of a difference between the 240/120 going through your house and the 100s of KV going through transmission lines
Power lines are more visible in areas with greater poverty, and poverty are risk factors for things like leukemia and miscarriages and depression. No animal trial has shown a link between the type of emissions that power lines give off and any medical issues. Additionally no one has been able to even demonstrate any possible mechanism for action.
But hey go ahead and prove me wrong. Get some rats and do a controlled study.
FartsWithAnAccentYou're the one making the assertion: Back it up with evidence.
BluetreefrogTo be fair, you should probably back claims like these up with some references. Google scholar has a few.
No one online is going to change their beliefs no matter how many references are provided.
HubertManneoh those are the covid vaccine mind control passages. Its only safe for lizard people and nords to pass through.
Right-of-way, right-o’way, utility easement
The Powerlines–a place for high schoolers to throw keggers.
Liminal.