Burying wires is not a panacea, particularly if flooding is an issue. Undergrouind services are also a lot harder to troublershoot and fix when they do fail.
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Exploding Transformers (hurricane damage)
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But the six foot of salt water w/ storm surge takes the poles down anyway...
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If your worst fear is trees or ice I agree, when it is 6 feet of salt water you really want those wires up on a pole.
It is also a lot easier to work in a bucket truck than to dig in a crowded right of way. You don't accomplish much if you fix the power line and take out a phone fiber.
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18 years ago
No, not too stupid, just to cheap to pay for it.
Down he road from me there is a community of about 40 houses with underground wires. Problem is, they are fed with overhead wires that go down in a breeze so they are often without power. No one is willing to change it yet though. Not just reliability, just stop and look at the overhead mess in some areas of the city.
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Only if you are on the beach. Inland water comes up and goes down faitrly slow. The concrete poles will usually even hold up on the beach. In large parts of Florida (and other Gulf coast states) you also have a water table that is a few feet below ground, hence no basements. A manhole is a small swimming pool.