City wide outage

Most areas around here have moved away from overhead electricity/lines and I'm a big fan of underground utilities it cleans uplook up a neighborhood so much without electrical lines going every direction or laying on the ground after a storm event. We have so many trees in this area that storm events can take weeks and sometimes a month to get utilities back online where overhead lines are still present.

There’s a cost to everything and underground lines cost a minimum of 5 times (per mile or km) more than overhead. Yes, reliability of underground lines is higher but your monthly bills will be higher for that additional reliability.