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

You’ve never been to that part of Louisiana, have you? You can’t put much underground there. The water table is too close to the surface.

That’s also why most places don’t have basements there, and the graveyards have madoleums instead of actual graves dug in the ground. Otherwise they’ll hit water.

It’s probably not a place humans should actually be living, but oh well.