I did aerial line work for years. The first rule of thumb before going up is to clear a landing zone in case you come down quicker than you had planned.
You may still break something, but clearing a landing zone reduces the chances of punctures.
People never cease to amaze me. Once near Headquarters ID, a person flagged me down to tell me his phone was out. I pulled into his driveway, and I found a pole down with a power lineman underneath it. The guy who stopped me was so angry that the lineman had put his phone out that he left the guy trapped under the pole when he came to get me. Luckily it was spring, and mud saved the lineman's life. He was a little broken up, but alive.