I definitely have to mention how good your hairstyle looks on you. You've done a lot with your hair on YouToube over the last few years. Of all the hairstyles, I like this one the best. Hug from Munich
Thank you so much I personally prefer a shorter hairdo on myself... The only thing I do wish was that it was about 1 inch longer because it would be a lot easier to style in a bun/ponytail. Right now it is a little too short to do those styles :/
The area in Northern Germany where I live is very prone to flooding. So much so that we are not allowed to build houses with basements here. But we do have underground cables. Exclusively!
The cables are in tubes, you can simply pull new cables through. Probably cheaper in the long term. I saw a US video a long time ago where the US 13 year old in Germany said "in DE they don't even have electricity", funny and sad at the same time.
Moin, Arno, als wir vor ungefähr 15 Jahren Besuch von unseren kanadischen UA-cam Freunden bekam, war die erste Frage, die Berni stellte, als er aus unserem Wagen stieg, sind eure Stromleitung unter der Erde richtig! Aber schlau genug zu wissen, dass wir hier nicht ohne Elektrizität auskommen. Und dabei mussten wir dann an seinen Hinterhof denken, wo die Elektrokabel aller umgebenden Gebäude kreuz und quer über seinen rasen verliefen! LOL! Zu den Straßenverhältnissen, ich weiß nicht, wie das bei euch am Bodensee ist dieses Jahr. Aber hier haben wir im Frühjahr so viele Straßenschäden, die nicht rechtzeitig genug repariert werden konnten, dass uns links vorne am Auto die Feder geplatzt ist! Da lag dann plötzlich in der Tiefgarage ein Stück gebogenes Metall unter dem Auto! Und ich möchte nicht wissen, wie viele Leute auf einer normalen Straße hier in Ahrensburg und Umgebung so einen Federbein Schaden hatten! LG und ein schönes Wochenende, Arno Ben❤
My mother's second husband worked for over 40 years as a salesman in the work safety supplies sector ("Arbeitsschutzbedarf"). He still does this alongside his pension. During the swine flu and later also during the more recent pandemic, the company he works for donated stocks of protective equipment (masks, gloves, disinfectants, hazardsuits etc.) with a short shelf life to care centres and hospitals and strictly adhered to the average market price + 10% profit when selling off the remaining stocks. And even when goods were sparsely replenished later. He had a work colleague who in turn bought some leftover stock from the company at the beginning of the pandemic, sold the goods at an outrageously high price after a few months when demand was high and pocketed the profit himself. This is now an ex-colleague, because he has been in prison for a year and still has four years to go. And I think that's a good thing.
I live in Germany and have (of course!) underground lines. And I must say, we experienced only 2 (two!) electric shortages in >30 years, both of them were releaved within 0,5-1 hour. I was in september in the USA in Pennsylvania, and was really shocked to see wooden poles with about a dozen and more electric and other cables. Such poles are prone to be damaged even in smaller storms, I saw such poles only in the less developed eastern European countryside.
Talking about underground powerlines: ask the Dutch, the Danish, and us Germans in the north of Germany about potential flooding. Hamburg regularly has flooding (at least twice a year) in the port area, completely set underwater for many hours. Das alte Land/the old land right outside the gates of Hamburg lies even below sea-level, also has regular water coming in either from the Elbe river or even the sea but it is being pumped out by multiple pumping stations. In all of these areas power lines are underground, well insulated, and have no problems with the water whatsoever. So the idea that Florida with its flooding is somehow a problem is bogus. The population density in all of the area mentioned above is WELL above anything in Florida, so that can't be the issue either.
Good point, we always wonder why the powerlines are not put underground, especially in regions with hurricanes, ice rain etc. It also must cost a lot of money to always revuild them.
Yeah a lot of the European Union has underground powerlines.... I also believe that everyone's powerlines are somewhat connected so power can be shared which is so interesting to me!
Most medium (11kV>) and low (415V) volt distribution is below ground along with telecom services in UK. In urban areas the big cables are also underground and I had a 33kV oil filled cable running diagonally across one of my sites. Just outside of my site a digger hit the oil filled cable and broke one of the phases and fortunately the tyres isolated the driver from electrocution. The cable served the North half of Leicester (~150,000 people and hundreds of factories) and it was lucky that it happened on a Saturday when most of the factories were shut otherwise the costs would be astronomic. They diverted all of the supplies onto the other two phases and called in a 50,000ltr oil tanker to pump the cooling oil in on a total loss basis and it was lucky that it went into the adjacent canal spur, where it could be recovered from. Spares for this cable are held in regional depots serving populations of more than 10M and each spare piece of spare steel tube clad cable takes 12 months on special order. The cost of the repair was in excess of $1 1/2M, which came out of the digger drivers insurance.
Same in Sweden, the very slow speed for it happening with the powerlines picked up drastically an after Cyclone Gudrun in 2005 so now they are very few left that is no underground.
Locating the position of faults in underground powerlines is usually done automatically in Germany. It is a standard feature of all the SCADA systems used. Since sometime in the 80s of the last millennium ...
There are tools which make it quite easy to determine the point of damage in any cable. Basically, they send an electric signal into the cable and wait for the echo to come back after the reflection at the broken point. The time it takes for the echo to come back gives you the distance from your measuring point to the damaged point. Please note, that the tools are very sophisticated (and can get really expensive), but they make it easy to check for damages. When I was working in the field, I sometimes had to use such a tool to find out which wire in a cable was actually broken, and where the damage is.
I built myself a time domain reflectometer gadget, to be used with my oscilloscope, for less than $ 30. I use it to find defects in (sometimes long) antenna lines, as I am a radio amateur.
@@jankrusat2150 Yes, this works for detecting a totally disconnect wires. But the likes of a Fluke are also telling you about partial ruptures, water leaks and other types of damage, because each has a different echo.
Underground power lines are very proof. They are not destroyed storms. The power lines in residential are mostly underground.. In the USA all houses are connected with small transformers. In Germany houses are supplied by big transformers who supply hundreds of houses. Transformers are connected to each other. They are meshed. Most houses enjoy three oases connections. The voltage system 230/400V is more powerful than the US system. We never had a black out for decades.
Agree 100% on the repair of the infrastructure on U S roadways. We could take a lesson from Germany on the construction of interstate highways. Watched a program yrs. back on the layers that go into highways/autobahn and I was like why don’t we do that here. Cost effective too. SMH. Cheers
During Hurricane Andrew, we lost power for 8 hours and our powerlines were underground. The neighborhoods with over ground power lost power for 3 weeks. Tennessee it's more difficult to have underground powerlines. Their ground is full of rocks. You would have to blast to put powerlines underground
Regarding tje quality of the roads i felt a big difference travelling from France to the UK where the roads in the UK were full of gravel and the whole car was vibrating as opposed to the smooth roads in France.
In Germany you can not sell your house under 10 years after buying it. Without paying a large tax. That stops house flipping. This keeps the price honest. Augsburg is the nicest part of Germany.
Left lane, except for passing, for every vehicle is the law in Florida effective this past July. However, the Florida Highway Patrol does absolutely nothing to enforce any of our traffic laws. I’ve written our governor at least five letters about this situation.
It is getting continuously worse. I sometimes feel a lot of people in the USA just don't like working or feel entitled to do the bare minimum for a paycheck which includes cops. It is so annoying!! It would be a simple task of just pulling people over and letting them know that their driving is dangerous. They don't even have to hand out tickets but warn people of the dangers.
@@HayleyAlexis The biggest problem is the FHP doesn’t even exist on I-75. The difference between driving the Florida stretch and the Georgia stretch is night and day safety and enforcement wise.
@@HayleyAlexis I think the underlying problem is that cops get quotas for speeding tickets. So their hobby is hunting unsuspecting drivers, like you experienced, and make themselves look good.
@@Photoboy1948greetings from Germany and sorry for the bad english. That governeur would be DeSantis, right? Guess he is too bussy pulling political stunts and financing them in California and Texas, than reading letters from his actual constituency. Or maybe his head is in too dark places to read. I heard that head seldom detaches from the republican presidential candidate' rear area, since he lost to that orange one...🤷♂️ Seems like Trumps healthcare plan, shining a light everywhere, didn't include his own a** after all😏
And isn't "cicer" the Italian word for chickpea? I think this could be a hint to the botanical link between the two (because a peaNUT is not a nut - it's a legume, right??)
often these "germany vs USA" - videos can get quite boring, but you always add something new to the conversation. Thanks for these interesting videos Hayley, don't ever stop giving us insights!
I'm old enough to remember a Germany with above ground power-lines. It really looks better now. Thank you for addressing this point. I've always wondered when disaster struck the US and millions were without power why the power-lines stayed above ground. Glad that isn't 100% the case anymore. I guess this is complicated and depends on the state you're in. California, for example, with its wildfires and earthquakes isn't comparable to Florida, right? But when I see videos of US cities it often doesn't look like an overly developed country.
Nice hairstyling! About the power lines.. the biggest problem is the different kind of power. For this, the USA have to switch from direct current to alternating current. If you want to make the traffic better, then start with the drive training. You need professional trainer and not that the parents train their kids. And do not forget to implement TÜV. And implement a recycling system. And add the tax to the prices.
Laying cables underground is NOT more expensive than laying them above ground with masts. 1: Poles also cost money 2: Poles have to be checked regularly to ensure that they are still stable 3: Do pylons cause personal injury in the event of accidents! 4: Cables laid underground last much longer than cables exposed to wind, weather and UV radiation You just have to do it right. And here you can always ask for the necessary rules, we will be happy to help you!
In California we have huge issues with power lines sparking wildfires. Over the last few years the power company has been cutting power to towns in the mountains and forested areas during hot and windy weather. Ideally the lines would be underground, but as a practical matter it’s probably prohibitively expensive. The power company already declared bankruptcy over wildfire lawsuits.
I could imagine the faster driving trucks might be the cause of many severe potholes in the US. The forces at work are immense, especially at high speeds. Also: in Germany there are a LOT of very crappy roads. That's mostly outside of Bavaria, though. Miiiight be because all ministers that were responsible for roads etc. in the past however many years came from there... miiiight be. 😉
I Russia, we're saying "kookarekoo" for a rooster and "ko-ko-ko" for a female chicken. Pretty close, I believe. Aww, Hayley, your hairstyle is so cute and suits you so well! Love it.
Kookarekoo seems to be the perfect mix between Kikeriki and Cockadoodledoo 😀
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The powerlines topic is a bit more complicated. The images you are about local, neighborhood powerlines. They are all (pretty much, save for some ancient legacy installations) underground. Together with phone/internet etc. The discussion in Germany is about long-range power connections. Those are still largely (I think) overground, and you see those huge power "poles" everywhere.
Cockadoodledoo made me think about the story of chicken little. Cause when I was done with elementary school after 4th grade we did that as a play and I was the rooster. And my first line was "Cockadoodledoo what are you doing on this fine morning?" (Yes, we did it in English even though we were in Germany and most of us only knew a few words in English at most back than.)
Come on, in Germany it depends on which state you are in. In North Rhine-Westphalia you have really run-down roads, particularly in the Ruhr area, while in southern Germany, i.e. Baden-Württemberg or Bavaria, you will find better roads. Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg are also Germany's richest states and you can see that in the roads. I recently spent a week in Karlsruhe, or rather across the border in Alsace, France. Great roads everywhere and here in the Ruhr area I have to be careful not to get stopped by the police because I have to zigzag around all the holes in the road so that my chassis survives on the car. Oh, and du hast die Haare schön.
Team Kikeriki 😊 - looking pretty ..... still can't understand why the USA got their power cables (etc.) not underground!!??!! Rainy greetings from Germany, Ela 🤗
It simply costs money. It is an upfront payment that might never get even with a cheaper power line through the air. Means: How many times can you do repairs to a power line above ground until you reach the same sum of money that was spent to put the cables underground. The consumers are automatically against increases in electricity costs. That is the American mindset. Just look at discussions in Bavaria where the NIMBYs want the windy electricity buried underground. And half the nation (northern states with wind turbines) shall pay for it with the network charges.
Hello Hayley, Underground Powerlines and other Cabels are better. It take a lot of Time and Money to repair normal Powerlines after every Natural Disaster. I watch a lot of Dashcam Viedos on YT. Many of them are from the US and they show us how Americans drive. It does not look pretty. Maybe better Driving Schools may solve this Problems? I´m glad that nothing bad happen to you and your Family during the Hurricanes. At last, your Hair look good and it seems so much longer since your last Video. A magic Trick?. Grüße aus Österreich.🐓🐓🐓
The magic of an afro 😂 my hair is naturally coily/curly which makes it look a lot shorter if I am wearing it as an afro. Once I straighten it, it looks a lot longer. I would say in another 6 months it will be a lot longer when straight but probably look exactly the same length afro-wise 😂😂
German streets and roads are safer because in Germany you're simply not allowed to drive unless you've passed a high-standards driving course and you're driving a vehicle in good repair. If America tried to import German driving school standards there would probably be a revolt for the freedumb to drive poorly. America can't import German vehicle standards because America is set up in a way that forces everyone to drive, and many people are so poor that an old clunker is all they can afford.
Hayley, die USA (Florida) liegen sehr viel südlicher als Deutschland, etwa auf dem Breitengrad von Nordafrika. Dagegen liegen die deutschen Städte nördlicher als alle kanadischen Großstädte. Die innerstädtischen Stromkabel werden meist unterirdisch verlegt, das kostet aber extrem viel. Die Verkehrsregeln in den USA sind vielfach total unterschiedlich. Da gibt es für deutsche USA-Urlauber viele Hinweise vom ADAC.
You need to look up the laws for semis. Semi laws are severely strict. It's not illegal for semis to drive in left lane. I understand why they do it. They have 21 gears to go through to get back up to speed when someone merges onto the highway that isn't at the speed of the semi. A lot of semis can go 10 over the speed limit, just like cars. Truck drivers training is the equivalent of Germany/Switzerland drivers license for a car license, which is funny. It's good that the laws for truck drivers and training for truck drivers are more strict than getting a car license in the US. Just because there's a tractor on the road doesn't mean they have a truck driving license (CDL A or CDL B). In a lot of states you can drive a tractor with a regular drivers license because it's under the weight limit for needing a CDL. You can even drive an empty tractor trailer with a regular car license because it isn't over the weight.
According to FDOT (Florida Department of Transportation): Trucks are restricted from the left or inside travel lane, leaving it specifically for automobile traffic. Tour buses and recreational vehicles (RVs) are not considered commercial trucks and are allowed to travel in the left or inside travel lane. I think you need to look up the laws for semis because you seem to be ill-informed. The crazy thing is that this information is READILY available on the internet, it took me (3) seconds to find the proper channels/avenues.
Power lines: the discussion in Germany is mainly about high voltage overland connections whereas you showed comparison pictures of an urban landscape, so it's about mid voltage end user connections. AfaIk the latter (underground) are relatively maintenance free. In my hometown they have rather repairwork to do with water and sewer connections - and when they tear up the street all other connections (gas, electricity, phone, heat) are scrutinized too (at hardly any additional cost). I don't know if the visual benefits would outweigh the logistical (and financial) disadvantages for maintenance as high voltage connections might need more maintenance. Potholes: because of the lower speeds American highways are built differently. I'm not an engineer but once saw a cimparison video about interstates and Autobahnen. There were astinishing differences between them (height of construction, structures, materials) that make German roads better performing and more durable but immensely more expensive. Then there is the aspect of maintenance. Resurfacing a road (even the whole surface) is relatively cheap and quick but doesn't help for long if the underlying structures are damaged. That's why road construction takes a felt eternity in Germany when they completely redo the whole road.
Yes!! That is correct about the powerlines. My Ex- who is a German nuclear engineering director noticed the powerlines when we were on vacation in Texas (to see my family). As an American, i NEVER really thought about that.....but, his comment was this 'You guys re-built our country better after the war(WWII) than you guys built your own country'.😮 Umm, that was a revelation for me, but he was so right! I Love these type of videos, please keep up the informative posts! 😊
Well you Ex is not correct in this: Powerlines were put underground as early as 1880. This is not something the Americans did bring to Germany. Overground powerlines were mostly used in the countryside, in towns barely
The price increase in the USA is pretty bad. The food brand Kraft had tripled its price on products using the excuse of inflation and corona, what also many brands do. All these brands are generating profits like never before, I just don't think it's right that nobody says anything about it. Considering that almost everyone in the USA drives a car, it should actually be done better and more often. Kakedodeldo? Sounds no way like any bird.
"Den Laut eines Frosch klingt im Amerikanischen natürlicher. = the call of a frog sounds more natural in american english "? sorry but frogs make VERY different sounds, depends where they are from. for instance the ribbek sound from frogs is only found in the area around Hollywood. whereas frogs in Germany have variations of quaquak schaust du hier ---> ua-cam.com/play/PLYMhuI2fUpRbdYCVpBgaDBM80TuF2fmGx.html
A little more than a year ago, I lived in an absolutely _lovely_ part of the world that I left for _one_ reason; the rent. The rent climbed a little higher, every year, disporportionately to inflation. Let me tell you, it sucks, moving for _only_ one reason, but the place I was living was a well known place that, traditionally, has also had a lot of people moving there, and will continue to have a lot of people moving there, into the foreseeable future, so the rent situation shows no signs of abating. I moved to a much more _obscure_ city that most people (even in the US) have probably never heard of, and one effect of this is that the rent around here is much _better._ I just realized, though, that both here, and the place where I was living before had their powerlines aboveground. 🤷♂
I don't understand why people in the USA tend to build wood houses rather than brick houses with thicker walls. Especially in areas that have hurricanes and tornados etc. brick houses would make a lot more sense cause they are more solid, right?
Wood Houses are much safer in a Hurricane All Houses are build to withstand 160 miles per hour !!!!!! Same scenario with Palm-trees ,they always survive in a Hurricane !!!!!!
The common attitude in the USA is to build as cheap as possible. It's cheaper to rebuild a wooden house, then repair the damage to a solid house that largely survived. And in the process, they can "move on up and out"
@@waynewenzel7687 Actually I looked it up after I first saw your comment and from what I read I guess you're right. Cause those 160 miles per hour seem to be what brick walls can withstand as well and I guess it's safer to have wood flying around rather than pieces of bricks. I really thought our German brick walls were more solid than that.
I went to a tornado-destroyed town in America and was surprised to see a cinderblock building in exactly the same condition of the wooden homes. Completely destroyed.
@folkehoffmann1198 yeah a lot of people don't know this information. Brick/stone isn't as flexible as wood and other things to build homes with. German homes are built to last in a country that doesn't have too much severe weather... Florida homes are made to survive as best they can through a hurricane.
In Germany there’s a vast difference between Autobahn, Bundesstrassen, even Landesstrassen on the one hand and the rest on the other. The former are spotless, meticulously maintained. The latter … errrmmm, well …, not so much. 😂 In fact they’re 💩
Southern red states 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻 This speaks volumes. I live in New Mexico which surely gets a bad rap for various racist reasons that one can imagine. Come check out our pristine roads in our blue state!
I also like others here note that your hairstyle is new and cool. You should make a video about all or many of the hairstyles you have had over the years. I certainly admire you for your fashion and style.
I Russia, we're saying "kookarekoo" for a rooster and "ko-ko-ko" for a female chicken. Pretty close, I believe. Aww, Hayley, your hairstyle is so cute and suits you so well! Love it.
Kikerikii vs Cockadoodledoo | which one is better?
From a phonetic Point of View kikeriki, from a totally Not mature Point of View cockadoodledoo
Cockadoodledoo ? To me that sounds like a combination of a hen and a cookoo ...
Kikerikii or Kikerüküh,
Viel Möööhhh!
Kikerikii!
What bird does cockadoodledoo?!
How can anyone hear a rooster and think yes that's what it sounds like.
It's so amusing to listen to you, love it 👌❤️
Kikerikii just make me think of Takanashi Kiara.
I definitely have to mention how good your hairstyle looks on you. You've done a lot with your hair on YouToube over the last few years. Of all the hairstyles, I like this one the best.
Hug from Munich
Thank you so much I personally prefer a shorter hairdo on myself... The only thing I do wish was that it was about 1 inch longer because it would be a lot easier to style in a bun/ponytail. Right now it is a little too short to do those styles :/
@@HayleyAlexis (Anna from Frozen voice ON) let it grow, let it groooow....🎵🎵(Anna voice OFF)
The area in Northern Germany where I live is very prone to flooding. So much so that we are not allowed to build houses with basements here. But we do have underground cables. Exclusively!
The cables are in tubes, you can simply pull new cables through. Probably cheaper in the long term. I saw a US video a long time ago where the US 13 year old in Germany said "in DE they don't even have electricity", funny and sad at the same time.
Moin, Arno, als wir vor ungefähr 15 Jahren Besuch von unseren kanadischen UA-cam Freunden bekam, war die erste Frage, die Berni stellte, als er aus unserem Wagen stieg, sind eure Stromleitung unter der Erde richtig! Aber schlau genug zu wissen, dass wir hier nicht ohne Elektrizität auskommen. Und dabei mussten wir dann an seinen Hinterhof denken, wo die Elektrokabel aller umgebenden Gebäude kreuz und quer über seinen rasen verliefen! LOL! Zu den Straßenverhältnissen, ich weiß nicht, wie das bei euch am Bodensee ist dieses Jahr. Aber hier haben wir im Frühjahr so viele Straßenschäden, die nicht rechtzeitig genug repariert werden konnten, dass uns links vorne am Auto die Feder geplatzt ist! Da lag dann plötzlich in der Tiefgarage ein Stück gebogenes Metall unter dem Auto! Und ich möchte nicht wissen, wie viele Leute auf einer normalen Straße hier in Ahrensburg und Umgebung so einen Federbein Schaden hatten! LG und ein schönes Wochenende, Arno Ben❤
@@tasminoben686 Bernie Sanders? Haha
My mother's second husband worked for over 40 years as a salesman in the work safety supplies sector ("Arbeitsschutzbedarf"). He still does this alongside his pension. During the swine flu and later also during the more recent pandemic, the company he works for donated stocks of protective equipment (masks, gloves, disinfectants, hazardsuits etc.) with a short shelf life to care centres and hospitals and strictly adhered to the average market price + 10% profit when selling off the remaining stocks. And even when goods were sparsely replenished later. He had a work colleague who in turn bought some leftover stock from the company at the beginning of the pandemic, sold the goods at an outrageously high price after a few months when demand was high and pocketed the profit himself. This is now an ex-colleague, because he has been in prison for a year and still has four years to go. And I think that's a good thing.
I live in Germany and have (of course!) underground lines. And I must say, we experienced only 2 (two!) electric shortages in >30 years, both of them were releaved within 0,5-1 hour. I was in september in the USA in Pennsylvania, and was really shocked to see wooden poles with about a dozen and more electric and other cables. Such poles are prone to be damaged even in smaller storms, I saw such poles only in the less developed eastern European countryside.
Talking about underground powerlines: ask the Dutch, the Danish, and us Germans in the north of Germany about potential flooding.
Hamburg regularly has flooding (at least twice a year) in the port area, completely set underwater for many hours.
Das alte Land/the old land right outside the gates of Hamburg lies even below sea-level, also has regular water coming in either from the Elbe river or even the sea but it is being pumped out by multiple pumping stations.
In all of these areas power lines are underground, well insulated, and have no problems with the water whatsoever. So the idea that Florida with its flooding is somehow a problem is bogus. The population density in all of the area mentioned above is WELL above anything in Florida, so that can't be the issue either.
Germans stare better than we do. We should totally adopt the German Stare, but only with snowbirds because they're easy to freak out.
Good point, we always wonder why the powerlines are not put underground, especially in regions with hurricanes, ice rain etc. It also must cost a lot of money to always revuild them.
Most cables ( powerline, phone, fiber ->internet) are undergrond in Belgium.
Yeah a lot of the European Union has underground powerlines.... I also believe that everyone's powerlines are somewhat connected so power can be shared which is so interesting to me!
Most medium (11kV>) and low (415V) volt distribution is below ground along with telecom services in UK. In urban areas the big cables are also underground and I had a 33kV oil filled cable running diagonally across one of my sites. Just outside of my site a digger hit the oil filled cable and broke one of the phases and fortunately the tyres isolated the driver from electrocution. The cable served the North half of Leicester (~150,000 people and hundreds of factories) and it was lucky that it happened on a Saturday when most of the factories were shut otherwise the costs would be astronomic. They diverted all of the supplies onto the other two phases and called in a 50,000ltr oil tanker to pump the cooling oil in on a total loss basis and it was lucky that it went into the adjacent canal spur, where it could be recovered from. Spares for this cable are held in regional depots serving populations of more than 10M and each spare piece of spare steel tube clad cable takes 12 months on special order. The cost of the repair was in excess of $1 1/2M, which came out of the digger drivers insurance.
Same in Sweden, the very slow speed for it happening with the powerlines picked up drastically an after Cyclone Gudrun in 2005 so now they are very few left that is no underground.
Locating the position of faults in underground powerlines is usually done automatically in Germany. It is a standard feature of all the SCADA systems used. Since sometime in the 80s of the last millennium ...
There are tools which make it quite easy to determine the point of damage in any cable. Basically, they send an electric signal into the cable and wait for the echo to come back after the reflection at the broken point. The time it takes for the echo to come back gives you the distance from your measuring point to the damaged point.
Please note, that the tools are very sophisticated (and can get really expensive), but they make it easy to check for damages. When I was working in the field, I sometimes had to use such a tool to find out which wire in a cable was actually broken, and where the damage is.
I built myself a time domain reflectometer gadget, to be used with my oscilloscope, for less than $ 30. I use it to find defects in (sometimes long) antenna lines, as I am a radio amateur.
@@jankrusat2150 Yes, this works for detecting a totally disconnect wires. But the likes of a Fluke are also telling you about partial ruptures, water leaks and other types of damage, because each has a different echo.
Underground power lines are very proof. They are not destroyed storms. The power lines in residential are mostly underground.. In the USA all houses are connected with small transformers. In Germany houses are supplied by big transformers who supply hundreds of houses. Transformers are connected to each other. They are meshed. Most houses enjoy three oases connections. The voltage system 230/400V is more powerful than the US system. We never had a black out for decades.
Agree 100% on the repair of the infrastructure on U S roadways. We could take a lesson from Germany on the construction of interstate highways. Watched a program yrs. back on the layers that go into highways/autobahn and I was like why don’t we do that here. Cost effective too. SMH. Cheers
Oh you changed your hair! The curls are nice on you. Never seen it like this before. Looking good👍
Thank you so much!! I really like it as well :)
I thought the same. Really pretty hairstyle😊❤
I agree with everything you mentioned, especially the subject of semi trucks!
During Hurricane Andrew, we lost power for 8 hours and our powerlines were underground. The neighborhoods with over ground power lost power for 3 weeks. Tennessee it's more difficult to have underground powerlines. Their ground is full of rocks. You would have to blast to put powerlines underground
Regarding tje quality of the roads i felt a big difference travelling from France to the UK where the roads in the UK were full of gravel and the whole car was vibrating as opposed to the smooth roads in France.
Underground Powerlines have no flooding problems, the connecting sleeves are cast with epoxy.
In Germany you can not sell your house under 10 years after buying it. Without paying a large tax. That stops house flipping. This keeps the price honest. Augsburg is the nicest part of Germany.
You look so beautiful with your hair!
Left lane, except for passing, for every vehicle is the law in Florida effective this past July. However, the Florida Highway Patrol does absolutely nothing to enforce any of our traffic laws. I’ve written our governor at least five letters about this situation.
It is getting continuously worse. I sometimes feel a lot of people in the USA just don't like working or feel entitled to do the bare minimum for a paycheck which includes cops. It is so annoying!! It would be a simple task of just pulling people over and letting them know that their driving is dangerous. They don't even have to hand out tickets but warn people of the dangers.
@@HayleyAlexis The biggest problem is the FHP doesn’t even exist on I-75. The difference between driving the Florida stretch and the Georgia stretch is night and day safety and enforcement wise.
@@HayleyAlexis I think the underlying problem is that cops get quotas for speeding tickets. So their hobby is hunting unsuspecting drivers, like you experienced, and make themselves look good.
@@Photoboy1948greetings from Germany and sorry for the bad english.
That governeur would be DeSantis, right?
Guess he is too bussy pulling political stunts and financing them in California and Texas, than reading letters from his actual constituency.
Or maybe his head is in too dark places to read. I heard that head seldom detaches from the republican presidential candidate' rear area, since he lost to that orange one...🤷♂️ Seems like Trumps healthcare plan, shining a light everywhere, didn't include his own a** after all😏
fun fact about the german rooster sound. if you write it like this: kikiriki it is the croatian word for peanut
😂😂😂
And isn't "cicer" the Italian word for chickpea? I think this could be a hint to the botanical link between the two (because a peaNUT is not a nut - it's a legume, right??)
Sound of a frog: rib'it rib'it or Quaaaak? 😂
often these "germany vs USA" - videos can get quite boring, but you always add something new to the conversation. Thanks for these interesting videos Hayley, don't ever stop giving us insights!
Love your Hair !!! 😍💜
I enjoyed this video. Good points.😊❤
I'm old enough to remember a Germany with above ground power-lines. It really looks better now.
Thank you for addressing this point. I've always wondered when disaster struck the US and millions were without power why the power-lines stayed above ground. Glad that isn't 100% the case anymore.
I guess this is complicated and depends on the state you're in. California, for example, with its wildfires and earthquakes isn't comparable to Florida, right? But when I see videos of US cities it often doesn't look like an overly developed country.
Nice hairstyling! About the power lines.. the biggest problem is the different kind of power. For this, the USA have to switch from direct current to alternating current. If you want to make the traffic better, then start with the drive training. You need professional trainer and not that the parents train their kids. And do not forget to implement TÜV.
And implement a recycling system. And add the tax to the prices.
To my knowledge USA already uses alternating power. 110V @ 60Hz.
@@FaithlessDeviant Then that's a gap in my knowledge. Thanks for the information! I always assumed that the USA still uses direct current.
Laying cables underground is NOT more expensive than laying them above ground with masts.
1: Poles also cost money
2: Poles have to be checked regularly to ensure that they are still stable
3: Do pylons cause personal injury in the event of accidents!
4: Cables laid underground last much longer than cables exposed to wind, weather and UV radiation
You just have to do it right. And here you can always ask for the necessary rules, we will be happy to help you!
The US Bird sound got me 😂😂😂😂
In California we have huge issues with power lines sparking wildfires. Over the last few years the power company has been cutting power to towns in the mountains and forested areas during hot and windy weather. Ideally the lines would be underground, but as a practical matter it’s probably prohibitively expensive. The power company already declared bankruptcy over wildfire lawsuits.
I could imagine the faster driving trucks might be the cause of many severe potholes in the US. The forces at work are immense, especially at high speeds. Also: in Germany there are a LOT of very crappy roads. That's mostly outside of Bavaria, though. Miiiight be because all ministers that were responsible for roads etc. in the past however many years came from there... miiiight be. 😉
Looking gorgeous, Hayley, and interesting content!
I Russia, we're saying "kookarekoo" for a rooster and "ko-ko-ko" for a female chicken. Pretty close, I believe.
Aww, Hayley, your hairstyle is so cute and suits you so well! Love it.
Kookarekoo seems to be the perfect mix between Kikeriki and Cockadoodledoo 😀
The powerlines topic is a bit more complicated. The images you are about local, neighborhood powerlines. They are all (pretty much, save for some ancient legacy installations) underground. Together with phone/internet etc. The discussion in Germany is about long-range power connections. Those are still largely (I think) overground, and you see those huge power "poles" everywhere.
Cockadoodledoo made me think about the story of chicken little. Cause when I was done with elementary school after 4th grade we did that as a play and I was the rooster. And my first line was "Cockadoodledoo what are you doing on this fine morning?" (Yes, we did it in English even though we were in Germany and most of us only knew a few words in English at most back than.)
Come on, in Germany it depends on which state you are in. In North Rhine-Westphalia you have really run-down roads, particularly in the Ruhr area, while in southern Germany, i.e. Baden-Württemberg or Bavaria, you will find better roads. Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg are also Germany's richest states and you can see that in the roads. I recently spent a week in Karlsruhe, or rather across the border in Alsace, France. Great roads everywhere and here in the Ruhr area I have to be careful not to get stopped by the police because I have to zigzag around all the holes in the road so that my chassis survives on the car. Oh, and du hast die Haare schön.
Team Kikeriki 😊 - looking pretty ..... still can't understand why the USA got their power cables (etc.) not underground!!??!!
Rainy greetings from Germany,
Ela 🤗
It simply costs money. It is an upfront payment that might never get even with a cheaper power line through the air. Means: How many times can you do repairs to a power line above ground until you reach the same sum of money that was spent to put the cables underground. The consumers are automatically against increases in electricity costs. That is the American mindset.
Just look at discussions in Bavaria where the NIMBYs want the windy electricity buried underground. And half the nation (northern states with wind turbines) shall pay for it with the network charges.
Hello Hayley, Underground Powerlines and other Cabels are better. It take a lot of Time and Money to repair normal Powerlines after every Natural Disaster.
I watch a lot of Dashcam Viedos on YT. Many of them are from the US and they show us how Americans drive. It does not look pretty. Maybe better Driving Schools may solve this Problems?
I´m glad that nothing bad happen to you and your Family during the Hurricanes.
At last, your Hair look good and it seems so much longer since your last Video. A magic Trick?. Grüße aus Österreich.🐓🐓🐓
The magic of an afro 😂 my hair is naturally coily/curly which makes it look a lot shorter if I am wearing it as an afro. Once I straighten it, it looks a lot longer. I would say in another 6 months it will be a lot longer when straight but probably look exactly the same length afro-wise 😂😂
German streets and roads are safer because in Germany you're simply not allowed to drive unless you've passed a high-standards driving course and you're driving a vehicle in good repair. If America tried to import German driving school standards there would probably be a revolt for the freedumb to drive poorly. America can't import German vehicle standards because America is set up in a way that forces everyone to drive, and many people are so poor that an old clunker is all they can afford.
My suspicion is that the cops are reluctant to mess with semi-trailer trucks for fear of angering a corporation operating on a just-in-time basis.
Hayley, die USA (Florida) liegen sehr viel südlicher als Deutschland, etwa auf dem Breitengrad von Nordafrika. Dagegen liegen die deutschen Städte nördlicher als alle kanadischen Großstädte. Die innerstädtischen Stromkabel werden meist unterirdisch verlegt, das kostet aber extrem viel. Die Verkehrsregeln in den USA sind vielfach total unterschiedlich. Da gibt es für deutsche USA-Urlauber viele Hinweise vom ADAC.
You need to look up the laws for semis. Semi laws are severely strict. It's not illegal for semis to drive in left lane. I understand why they do it. They have 21 gears to go through to get back up to speed when someone merges onto the highway that isn't at the speed of the semi. A lot of semis can go 10 over the speed limit, just like cars. Truck drivers training is the equivalent of Germany/Switzerland drivers license for a car license, which is funny. It's good that the laws for truck drivers and training for truck drivers are more strict than getting a car license in the US. Just because there's a tractor on the road doesn't mean they have a truck driving license (CDL A or CDL B). In a lot of states you can drive a tractor with a regular drivers license because it's under the weight limit for needing a CDL. You can even drive an empty tractor trailer with a regular car license because it isn't over the weight.
According to FDOT (Florida Department of Transportation): Trucks are restricted from the left or inside travel lane, leaving it specifically for automobile traffic. Tour buses and recreational vehicles (RVs) are not considered commercial trucks and are allowed to travel in the left or inside travel lane.
I think you need to look up the laws for semis because you seem to be ill-informed. The crazy thing is that this information is READILY available on the internet, it took me (3) seconds to find the proper channels/avenues.
Power lines: the discussion in Germany is mainly about high voltage overland connections whereas you showed comparison pictures of an urban landscape, so it's about mid voltage end user connections. AfaIk the latter (underground) are relatively maintenance free. In my hometown they have rather repairwork to do with water and sewer connections - and when they tear up the street all other connections (gas, electricity, phone, heat) are scrutinized too (at hardly any additional cost). I don't know if the visual benefits would outweigh the logistical (and financial) disadvantages for maintenance as high voltage connections might need more maintenance.
Potholes: because of the lower speeds American highways are built differently. I'm not an engineer but once saw a cimparison video about interstates and Autobahnen. There were astinishing differences between them (height of construction, structures, materials) that make German roads better performing and more durable but immensely more expensive. Then there is the aspect of maintenance. Resurfacing a road (even the whole surface) is relatively cheap and quick but doesn't help for long if the underlying structures are damaged. That's why road construction takes a felt eternity in Germany when they completely redo the whole road.
Yes!! That is correct about the powerlines. My Ex- who is a German nuclear engineering director noticed the powerlines when we were on vacation in Texas (to see my family). As an American, i NEVER really thought about that.....but, his comment was this 'You guys re-built our country better after the war(WWII) than you guys built your own country'.😮 Umm, that was a revelation for me, but he was so right! I Love these type of videos, please keep up the informative posts! 😊
Well you Ex is not correct in this: Powerlines were put underground as early as 1880. This is not something the Americans did bring to Germany. Overground powerlines were mostly used in the countryside, in towns barely
Could you do, “what Germany can learn from the USA”? Bc honestly, there are so many things that a better in the USA.
Like what?
@@HayleyAlexis FEMA, RED CROSS, Declaration of State of Emergency.
The price increase in the USA is pretty bad.
The food brand Kraft had tripled its price on products using the excuse of inflation and corona, what also many brands do.
All these brands are generating profits like never before, I just don't think it's right that nobody says anything about it.
Considering that almost everyone in the USA drives a car, it should actually be done better and more often.
Kakedodeldo? Sounds no way like any bird.
There is a lot of potholes up north in Philadelphia as well. They do not fix it.
It's so amusing to listen to you love it 👌❤️
Thank you so much!!!
In italy Kikkiriki is the sound for male coccodé is for female cicken
I feel, this video might aswell be titled: A Well-Tempered Roadrage. 😁
Cockadoodledoo sounds like a cow or donkey trying to imitate a rooster...
Den Laut eines Frosch klingt im Amerikanischen natürlicher.
"Den Laut eines Frosch klingt im Amerikanischen natürlicher. = the call of a frog sounds more natural in american english "? sorry but frogs make VERY different sounds, depends where they are from. for instance the ribbek sound from frogs is only found in the area around Hollywood. whereas frogs in Germany have variations of quaquak schaust du hier ---> ua-cam.com/play/PLYMhuI2fUpRbdYCVpBgaDBM80TuF2fmGx.html
Kikerikii Sounds better to me.. Thank you 💙🦋
A little more than a year ago, I lived in an absolutely _lovely_ part of the world that I left for _one_ reason; the rent. The rent climbed a little higher, every year, disporportionately to inflation. Let me tell you, it sucks, moving for _only_ one reason, but the place I was living was a well known place that, traditionally, has also had a lot of people moving there, and will continue to have a lot of people moving there, into the foreseeable future, so the rent situation shows no signs of abating.
I moved to a much more _obscure_ city that most people (even in the US) have probably never heard of, and one effect of this is that the rent around here is much _better._ I just realized, though, that both here, and the place where I was living before had their powerlines aboveground. 🤷♂
Everything I go to the States I also ask why they not put power lines under the earth.
I don't understand why people in the USA tend to build wood houses rather than brick houses with thicker walls. Especially in areas that have hurricanes and tornados etc. brick houses would make a lot more sense cause they are more solid, right?
Wood Houses are much safer in a Hurricane All Houses are build to withstand 160 miles per hour !!!!!! Same scenario with Palm-trees ,they always survive in a Hurricane !!!!!!
The common attitude in the USA is to build as cheap as possible. It's cheaper to rebuild a wooden house, then repair the damage to a solid house that largely survived. And in the process, they can "move on up and out"
@@waynewenzel7687 Actually I looked it up after I first saw your comment and from what I read I guess you're right. Cause those 160 miles per hour seem to be what brick walls can withstand as well and I guess it's safer to have wood flying around rather than pieces of bricks. I really thought our German brick walls were more solid than that.
I went to a tornado-destroyed town in America and was surprised to see a cinderblock building in exactly the same condition of the wooden homes. Completely destroyed.
@folkehoffmann1198 yeah a lot of people don't know this information. Brick/stone isn't as flexible as wood and other things to build homes with. German homes are built to last in a country that doesn't have too much severe weather... Florida homes are made to survive as best they can through a hurricane.
In Germany there’s a vast difference between Autobahn, Bundesstrassen, even Landesstrassen on the one hand and the rest on the other. The former are spotless, meticulously maintained. The latter … errrmmm, well …, not so much. 😂 In fact they’re 💩
Team kikerikie😊🐓 ❤🙋♀️🌻
How about better driver training?
100% but I know that is probably harder to enforce than giving people tickets for tailgating etc
Price gouging may be illegal but the pink tax is not 😢
They told me that it’s very costly
U 👀 elegant 🧡
Southern red states 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻 This speaks volumes.
I live in New Mexico which surely gets a bad rap for various racist reasons that one can imagine. Come check out our pristine roads in our blue state!
I also like others here note that your hairstyle is new and cool. You should make a video about all or many of the hairstyles you have had over the years. I certainly admire you for your fashion and style.
Du siehst aber heute gut aus.
Danke danke!!
Trump will come and with Trump all the worries of the Americans will be erased at once 🤣🤣🤫🤫
you must watch a lot of communist mainstream media, the way you talk shows me you no nothing
Like when you hurt your foot and to distract yourself from the pain you hit your hand with a hammer?
If you think German roads are well maintained - drive through Norway 🤯🪞
I Russia, we're saying "kookarekoo" for a rooster and "ko-ko-ko" for a female chicken. Pretty close, I believe.
Aww, Hayley, your hairstyle is so cute and suits you so well! Love it.