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This can vary on the power lines and trees. Typically it would not be the snow, but the ice, which would cause problems, though. Icicles forming on overhead power lines, weighing them down, or icicles on tree branches, causing them to bend or break and fall into the power lines, would be the most common problems in winter weather, rather than a certain amount of snowfall.

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