No, we learned about that after hurricane Ike here in Houston. People fight buried lines tooth and nail because they have to remove a lot of trees in order to do it. So they leave the trees, and hang the lines, and then the trees fall over and kill the power lines. For weeks. But they can’t bury the lines because of the trees.
“So they leave the trees, and hang the lines...”
Many of the trees are trimmed around the wires where I am. They end up looking like this: Y
I live in an area where all of the power lines, phone lines (they still exist) fiber etc. are buried. No ugly telephone poles to look at. The transformers/power distribution boxes are above ground but for the most part no one notices them. Only those big pylons with the high power lines are around. I don't know why these power companies don't start burying the power lines. I guess it makes too much sense to do so.