Jet Shoes, Flying Cars, and Meals-in-a-Pill Dept.

By now why aren't we all living in weatherproofed domes so it never happens that a neighbor's huge pine tree gets coated with ice in a big winter storm and a branch rips off and lands on your electric and cable wires that extend across the street and knocks out your power for three days or more and you have no light or heat or connectivity and have to find somewhere else to sleep so you don't wake up looking like a member of the blue man group in the morning, hmm?