Re:because they've been conditioned (Score 3, Interesting)

It has nothing to do with conditioning. They could easily bury power lines to prevent storm outages, but people don't want to pay the costs. That is what 9s in uptime is all about. Paying increasingly more for increasingly smaller additional uptime. I would rather pay my current rates than pay twice as much, but have less downtime. I can live for a day or two with out power after a major storm. If you can't then pay the extra your self and buy a generator. Don't try to force others to subsidize your service requirements.