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Trees which then fall on local neighborhood power lines, or a more serious circumstance, sometimes we get freezing rain that can accumulate on transmission lines. when that happens, a lot more people can be affected by the outage. >> and how does it actually affect the grid itself? how does it become bigger than just that branch that may be iced up falling on a power line? >> if they get a transmission line that's taken out, it can actually bring generation plants off line. i'll give you an example. nuclear power plants need to be connected to a functioning grid so they can operate safely. we ...

Trees which then fall on local neighborhood power lines, or a more serious circumstance, sometimes we get freezing rain that can accumulate on transmission lines. when that happens, a lot more people can be affected by the outage. >> and how does it actually affect the grid itself? how does it become bigger than just that branch that may be iced up falling on a power line? >> if they get a transmission line that's taken out, it can actually bring generation plants off line. i'll give you an example. nuclear power plants need to be connected to a functioning grid so they can operate safely. we ...