And next time your neighbor bitches about all the mess and noise involved with clearing the branches off of tree lines, just throat punch them a few times and I'm sure they'll forget all about those silly distractions.
It was actually the salt spray and high winds that blew up transformers and knocked down telephone poles, not to mention the flooding in many of the houses . They will not energize the line until they disconnect those houses from the main line.
Very few trees in the beach area.