Editing Snow (section)

====Utility lines====
In areas with trees, utility distribution lines on poles are less susceptible to snow loads than they are subject to damage from trees falling on them, felled by heavy, wet snow.<ref>
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 |url         = https://www.progress-energy.com/carolinas/home/safety-information/storm-safety-tips/outages.page?
 |title       = Storms & Outages
 |last        = Technical staff
 |date        = 2015
 |publisher   = Duke Energy
 |access-date = December 6, 2016
 |quote       = Both snow and ice cause power outages primarily by weighing down tree limbs and power lines, causing them to break
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}}</ref> Elsewhere, snow can accrete on power lines as "sleeves" of rime ice. Engineers design for such loads, which are measured in kg/m (lb/ft) and power companies have forecasting systems that anticipate types of weather that may cause such accretions. Rime ice may be removed manually or by creating a sufficient short circuit in the affected segment of power lines to melt the accretions.<ref>{{Citation
 | last = Farzaneh
 | first = Masoud
 | title = Atmospheric Icing of Power Networks
 | publisher = Springer Science & Business Media
 | year = 2008
 | page = 141
 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Ufg-AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA141
 | isbn = 9781402085314 }}</ref><ref>{{Citation
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 |first2          = M.
 |display-authors = etal <!--P. Marcacci, G. Mariani, and G. Stella-->
 |title           = Wet snow hazard for power lines: a forecast and alert system applied in Italy
 |journal         = Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
 |volume          = 11
 |issue           = 9
 |year            = 2011
 |pages           = 2419–2431
 |doi             = 10.5194/nhess-11-2419-2011
 |bibcode         = 2011NHESS..11.2419B
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