About 12 years ago we had almost 100% of the Puget Sound area without power for weeks on end because of a snowstorm and downed lines (with serious accessibility problems from down trees. Ex #2 worked for Puget Sound Energy and she was away from home for 2 weeks straight on storm duty. This is so “cart before the horse” it is not even funny. All lines, including Distribution, need to go underground to make this viable. Postscript on that storm, I lived remote and had a 250 gal propane tank along w a 15kW generator, so I was fine.
Super storm Sandy a few years ago in WV, we had no electricity for a week, had gas, we could cook, had heat and hot water.