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Why not bury all our power lines?
“We haven’t done it yet because it’s expensive,” said Megan Lawson, an economist at the land-use nonprofit Headwaters Economics.
She said depending on where you’re talking about burying lines, the cost could be five or 10 times the cost of wiring them above ground. But despite the upfront cost, in some places it still might make sense.
“We also need to be looking at the intensity and frequency of a lot of these natural disasters is increasing,” Lawson said.