Originally Posted by onwebcam

I've been railing about this locally for some time. Most of the US is this way. They claim it would be too expensive to bury the lines but while they are saying it they are standing next to google spending their own money digging up the same paths throughout the entire city to lay fiber. There was actually a big fight between google and the electric/phone/cable companies over the use of the poles so google had to go underground for most. They almost walked away over it all. None of the idiots involved suggested working together to bury it all underground. Now we have google fiber and the regular opportunity of not having power after a storm.

This is part of our infrastructure problem. Our representatives have been more interested in making sure other countries infrastructures are living in the present while our own is in the past.