Disasters and other rants...

[twospirits]

Bear with me folks, just a few rants...
#1
I just don't get it, I see numerous disasters on TV and in real life and I've noticed that in alot of these communities the power and telephone lines are all outside the ground on utility poles. You figure that after the first disaster they would be smart enought to place these lines underground. But nope, they build them back the way they were and boom, the next disaster hits and we are back to square one. I figure if they were undergraound there would be less blackouts etc.

#2
The same goes and can be said for the mobile houses. Whats the story with them. I thought that since Hurricane Andrew that caused so much destruction on poorly constructed houses that Florida (since its the most hit by hurricanes) would stop constructing them and make hurricane proof (if there is such a thing) houses instead of the matchstick mobile homes.

#3
Why is it on the only 4 lane highway from/to a community being hit by a disaster that they don't use three lanes going from the disaster and one lane in, Nope, I see just two lanes going from the disaster fully congested and backed up and the two lanes going to the disaster completely empty. Wheres the logic?

[CamaroSSBoy346]

do you realize how expensive and difficult it would be to change all the above ground wires to below ground?

[MagicRat]

I agree, this rant really is about money.
Most moderm urban cities have buried most of their electrical lines. You only see a fraction of them above ground. Just look at old photos of downtown cores of busy cities from the 20's to the 50's. They were a forest of wires compared to today, and they had much less electrical demand than today.
But this takes money that small communities don't have.
Most people living in trailers would love to have homes but cannot afford them, or work forces them to move frequently and apartment buildings are not available to them.