Sweden has a lot of trees too. What have we done to prevent outages you ask? We've cut down trees that are close enough to fall over powerlines and the last mile are in many cases buried to prevent damage from storms and lightning.

Ouch. Yay to spoil my fun, you big grown-up. You have a point though, in that - unlike in comics - the "supervillains" aren't really one lone man, but whole corporations / governments / etc. It takes two (hundred) to tango (in this case).