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.
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 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.
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.
Interesting. 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.
I sure am
Right. Cause we’re not looney.
Mostly because hydro means water. Of course that would be confusing.
To me “hydro line” sounds like a weird way to say “water pipe”.