2014-Oct-24
Oct 18, 10:28 AM EDT
POWER OUT, TREES FALL AS HURRICANE CROSSES BERMUDABY JOSH BALL AND DANICA COTO ASSOCIATED PRESS
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HAMILTON, Bermuda (AP) — Hurricane Gonzalo crushed trees, flattened power lines and damaged Bermuda’s main hospital during an hours-long battering – the second time the tiny British territory has been slammed by a powerful storm in less than a week.
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Simple observation: Why aren’t power lines underground?
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Reinke Faces Life 
Cities put the infrastructure undrrground. Swanky communities too.
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Indeed, or at least I would guess you’re correct. Perhaps it is just inertia: the utilities have the gear for everything to go overhead, they have the crews to-fix the stuff, they have the budgeted overtime for storm damage… dunno?
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I understand (I am a fat old white guy injineer) BUT when they are continually KOed like on an island that gets regularly pounded OR as a design feature, I would think that cost equation would shift. Building a resilient infrastructure has to be cheaper than consistent outages and regular “repair”. Hmmm?
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Cost, pure and simple.
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Because they are much more expensive to install that way and, worse, are fortune to repair when – for example – they are struck by lightning surge.
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