And around here, if it's not in a chunk of 2" RMC, you can expect to never see it energized. Different strokes for different areas of the country.
I imagine the sensation I get when reading this...
Dennis Alwon said:
Rigid is the other alternative but that ain't going to happen.
...is about the same sensation people get in Chicago when the rest of us ask incredulously, "You guys run EMT
in houses?!?"
It's just par for the course here, and seeing pictures like that illustrate (to me, at least) why it makes sense. The odds of drilling through an RMC mast on accident is far lower (I mean, think about it), and if the idiot actually makes it through, you have a nice raceway surrounding the fault.
JMO.