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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Answer 1

[I asked this on another post a few days ago](https://reddit.com/r/news/comments/pe40ep/hurricane_ida_makes_landfall_in_louisiana_as_one/haw3dx6) and the consensus was that LA is built on water once you dig to a certain depth, so you would have cables floating in water.

Also, maintenance would become very expensive