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COPYRIGHT 2005 The Miami Herald
Byline: Mary Ellen Klas
Aug. 29--TALLAHASSEE -- As food rotted in South Florida refrigerators, mold-triggering humidity seeped into homes and more than 380,000 FPL customers in Miami-Dade and Broward counties wilted from a fourth day without power, Gov. Jeb Bush said it may be time to take a serious look at burying power lines, shielding them from the fury of future storms.
"I do think we ought to find ways to offer significant incentives for putting lines underground," the governor said Sunday at the state Emergency Operations Centers.
"Putting lines underground has an enormous cost attached to it, but the cost of refurbishing these lines that are above ground . . . is paid...
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