Hurricane Ida plunged more than 1 million customers on the Gulf Coast into darkness, and then knocked out power to another 200,000 in the Northeast on Wednesday night. The chief culprit, especially as the storm first came ashore, was the wind. A way to avoid that does exist: burying cables underground, The Washington Post reports.
What would it cost to bury our power lines?
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