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On Tuesday, Vicki Maggs showed us how the pole was rotting and leaning in her yard. It was leaning in the direction of an area her grandchildren often play. "We're in the process of building a ...
James added that a leaning utility pole isn't always a safety concern. Some poles are set at an angle for structural reasons. Tension from the wires usually reinforces the stability.
These poles were leaning, approaching the end of their expected lifespan, and nowhere close to meeting national standards. In a 2019 filing, it was noted that the replacement of the aging poles ...
"I looked at this pole and I'm telling you, it's leaning like 15 or 20 degrees." The neighbor declined to comment for this story, but Flynn notes that the adult members of that household ...
SPRING, Texas (KTRK) -- A leaning Centerpoint pole left behind by Hurricane Beryl's winds is causing concern in one Spring neighborhood near Wisteria Walk. Neighbors tell ACTION 13 they've called ...
Compounding the problem is that many of the utility’s 60,000, mostly wooden power poles, which its own documents described as built to “an obsolete 1960s standard,” were leaning and near the ...
One of the poles leaning on the right side of the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall “Two teams were promptly dispatched to the location to assess the situation. The evaluation confirmed that the poles ...
Local utilities say they proactively take care of and repair leaning telephone poles. An Enterprise reader recently reached out noting that she'd noticed quite a few utility or telephone poles ...