Why do you think this problem continues to plague us?
With so many intelligent people in America and technology the way it's progressing, why is it that nobody works on making the nation safer by inventing a way that we won't have thousands of families out of heat and lighting during a storm.. Why is there no better way?
Update:It costs so many millions of dollars to fix or repair damage caused by wind and weather. Lives are not as important?
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We already know that burying the power lines will keep power flowing to homes while weather above does it's thing. However, most utility companies are now privately owned entities being run for profit above providing a service and in their calculations doing that is much more expensive than doing maintenance on existing lines on top of most people would balk at paying extra on their bills to fund such a thing, especially suspecting that the extra charges may become a permanent fixture to their bills.
It would be too expensive to implement. No one is going to pay for something like that it would hurt more than it would help.
The extra cost would damage the local economy, hurt people living in the area, and just do more harm than good.
Trust me with so many intelligent people out there most of the time there's a good reason for things like that.
I don't know if mankind will be ever able to create a way to counter an act of god or an act of nature as we are never prepared for it.