Heavy burden

Just a reminder that there was a reason for what happened here in Temple City, on this block, Live Oak Avenue, and in many other nearby cities here in the San Gabriel Valley, on Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 2011. Yes, the fierce winds. But also, yesterday a California Public Utilities Commission investigation found that about 13.4 percent of the power poles were overburdened, too weak to support the lines and equipment added to them, and that they did not meet CPUC safety standards.
That says a lot of things. Perhaps about a sagging infrastructure. An agency that lost track of what is important. It's also a metaphor for an information age that loads us down with too much information. Perhaps so much that we can't handle it all and we snap.(photo by Steve Scauzillo, Dec. 1, 2011).