Given how often we have ice/heavy snow/wind storms around here, our electric, phone, and Internet wires SHOULD all be buried... but they are not. I guess they'd need to go quite deep to get below the frost line, and the hassle and expense make the utilities more willing to just constantly put poles and lines back up after heavy weather, but man...

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