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How many hurricanes make up the cost of one burried powerline?

It seems "state_naturally_inefficient" social Engineering is similar always cheaper to solving problems.

The ground in Houston is mostly clay and extremely wet. I'm no civil engineer but I imagine It would likely result in more issues that take longer to fix.

Not to mention Houston is huge and dense so switching completely to underground would be a massive project that no one is going to enjoy.

I don’t know, you tell me. How much would it cost to bury all of the power lines in the Houston area?

Or have more redundancy?

It might cost less to relocate all of the residents somewhere else. The Houston area is absolutely enormous.

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