Palm Springs Meiselman Reborn

A Mid-Century Tract Home Renovation

February 10, 2004

So. Cal Edison

Any of you who own a home in Southern California are probably familiar with pathetic and brutal tree trimming work performed by the electric company, So. Cal Edison. They don't give a crap what it looks like when they're finished as long as it doesn't touch any wires. In fact they left our neighbor with a 30 ft. stump of a palm tree in his back yard last month. Nice.

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So I was a little freaked when I walked out this morning to see they're trimmers heading into the back yard with chainsaws. Thankfully our gardener was here planting the ficus and he negotiated (in much better spanish than we could have come up with) a deal to have them take the whole "beard" taken off - instead of just hacking away at one side of the tree as they would have done. This "deal" was not exactly cheap but at least it looks good. I fear what we might have found had we not been around.

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AFTER
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Posted by MJ at February 10, 2004 06:36 PM
Comments

Try working for these people sometimes, your tree stump problem may be pale in comparison. I completely understand your issue, they dont give a hoot! why else would they fake thier customer survey's, get management bonuses and then let the little guys making peanuts get fired while the managers sit around taking no responsibility for what they sanctioned.

Restless in SOcal

Posted by: Mavis M. R. at March 23, 2004 12:12 PM