How do you lose power with buried power lines?

Question

I just moved to a new community with buried power lines which gave me a false sense of confidence before the remnants of Ian hit. No luck though – we still lost power last night for several hours. How does that happen? Am I more or less likely to have power go out, and if it does out, does it typically take the same amount of time to restore? Halp.

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Answer 1

There are usually some lines above ground somewhere in the system. They are still less exposed overall than above ground systems so it should be less likely to fail in a storm and faster to fix since crews won’t have to run all over town fixing downed wires. Less failure points is always better