[tcoff91]

Any time the Santa Ana winds pick up in so cal they turn the power off to prevent fires now so yeah the US power infrastructure is shit compared to Germany. Over there it’s all underground because when they rebuilt after ww2 they realized it’s dumb to have it be so easy to blow up your power grid with bombs.

[PaulDavisThe1st]

Putting it underground doesn't stop it being blown up with bombs.

[ahartmetz]

Much harder to hit though, except with modern precision bombs if you happen to know where they are.

That said, I also doubt that bomb resistance was the main reason for underground power lines. The sentiment in Germany at the time was, and mostly still is today: "No more wars!"

[PaulDavisThe1st]

I'm not sure it is much harder than hitting aerial wires, is it?

Presumably, you aim for the substations anyway, which I think are generally above ground no matter where the wires are ...