I will say that FPL hardened their infrastructure over the last several years such that no FPL Owned distribution equipment suffered damage from Ian. In less than a week they had restored almost 98% of their customers. There are a few hundred utility companies in Florida, though, so obviously everyone is not so lucky. But they all cooperate when it comes to storm restoration. About 65000 people staged and ready before the storm landed.
Underground utilities are fine, but you still have to have substations and distribution centers that cannot be buried and that is where the money goes to harden the system. 200mph poles for the major distribution, smart metering so outages can be pinpointed immediately. The goal of course is to restore as many as possible as fast as possible, and certain distribution gets priority, hospital zones, etc.

Caveat, I work in the electric utility industry.


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