Not sure I like that. I do think they need to work on the power infrastructure and move to more underground feeds. Just too much of it is vulnerable to falling branches and trees. I know that is not cheap but neither is the restoration from these events. If the feds lightened up on regulations perhaps tpower companies would have more money for modernization.
Then there is the tendency to install diesel generators in basements. Seawater and diesel don't mix, either.
And, to make things even worse, some people tend to fix yesterday's problems, thinking that history will repeat itself. Don't get me wrong, history can repeat itself. But all too often history will ring in changes that get around all your "careful planning" and dump you back in the Dark Ages. Like having waves of sea water higher than you have ever experienced before. Remember the Japan reactors?