Quote Originally Posted by DetroitPlanner View Post
If you want to blame anyone you can collectively blame yourselves. We have a long tradition of NOT investing in needed infrastructure around here. Look at the roads, remember the water mains last winter? How about the great transit we have.

We have made this mess by not insisting on keeping things well maintained. Notice how the richer areas that do bury cables were not as badly affected?

Look on the bright side, at least the freeways did not fill up with sewage!
Buried electric service doesn't do much to prevent outages. The primary lines are still mostly above ground.