Originally Posted By: Grouch
Originally Posted By: unimogbert
I like buried cables for many reasons. But one reason I don't like them is that they are very hard to locate problems on and even harder to repair.

I've heard the same concern from people in the know in my neck of the woods.
That's the reason I've been given in the UK. Above ground they may be more likely to fail in a disaster, but they are quicker to repair, too. It's a trade-off.

I suspect it also depends on the type of disaster. It seems to me that over-head cables should be relatively resilient to earthquakes, even if the ground on either side of a cable shifts a few feet. An underground cable would likely get sheared.

Not that we get that kind of earthquake in the UK; we mostly just get a bit of shaking. We do get tornadoes, but they are very localised and it's easy to fix the local damage. We get floods, and above ground is good for that.
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