In areas that get a lot of hurricanes like New Orleans, why isn’t most of the electricity run underground where it’s less vulnerable by now?

Question

In areas that get a lot of hurricanes like New Orleans, why isn’t most of the electricity run underground where it’s less vulnerable by now?

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Not american here. What i have gathered about that zone is that neither the people or the authorities care. They’d rather build cheap and rebuild after every disaster, than building expensive and disaster proof infrastructure.

You’d think NO should have one of the most wind and water resistant infrastructures in the world but the houses are no very different that paper.