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K-Bizzle wrote:

nightflameauto wrote:I can't imagine what southerners that aren't used to this crap at all are going through. Fucking hell.

Being my first winter down here it certainly is interesting.

Normally I laugh at what the locals consider cold or rough driving but this shit definitely hits different down here.

By that I mean the roads, bridges, homes, and municipal services just aren't designed for it. No joke the icey roads here this week have been the most difficult driving I've ever encountered and I spent my first 36 years of life in the midwest getting hit with shit every winter. Even when I lived in rural northern Indiana and the plows are few and far between, that doesn't compare to this.

Its really wild man, especially with the grid failing and so many people out of power. Things just aren't built for this kind of cold and/or snow and you just don't realize how well prepared the north is for this kind of stuff until you experience it elsewhere and it cripples the city and burst pipes start + power outages start doing damage to homes.

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nightflameauto wrote:We've been so cold for so long they've started considering rolling blackouts. Our wind turbines around here are built to withstand serious cold spells, but we've been so cold that they had to shut them down because the heating elements in them couldn't keep them warm enough to prevent the metals and carbon structures from freezing to the point of getting too brittle to handle the movement without shattering. This is some cray-cray level shit. Had we only stayed at twenty below for a couple days, we'd have been fine, but it's been near a week. Thankfully, we're above zero for the first time since early last week, and we should see fifty by middle of next week.

I can't imagine what southerners that aren't used to this crap at all are going through. Fucking hell.

nightflameauto wrote:

K-Bizzle wrote:

nightflameauto wrote:I can't imagine what southerners that aren't used to this crap at all are going through. Fucking hell.

Being my first winter down here it certainly is interesting.

Normally I laugh at what the locals consider cold or rough driving but this shit definitely hits different down here.

By that I mean the roads, bridges, homes, and municipal services just aren't designed for it. No joke the icey roads here this week have been the most difficult driving I've ever encountered and I spent my first 36 years of life in the midwest getting hit with shit every winter. Even when I lived in rural northern Indiana and the plows are few and far between, that doesn't compare to this.

Its really wild man, especially with the grid failing and so many people out of power. Things just aren't built for this kind of cold and/or snow and you just don't realize how well prepared the north is for this kind of stuff until you experience it elsewhere and it cripples the city and burst pipes start + power outages start doing damage to homes.

I have a coworker that, a few years ago, moved to Alabama from here. They got hit with a snowstorm and a cold blast about a year later and he reported much the same. They aren't prepared for it, and had to wait for snow plows from northern states to be imported to dig out. Plus they don't have the salt/sand on hand to keep icy roads drivable. There's just no way to be ready for something that has only happened once or twice a century.

I have a feeling this type of thing will get more frequent as weather patterns are getting more and more wild through the years.

K-Bizzle wrote:

nightflameauto wrote:

K-Bizzle wrote:

nightflameauto wrote:I can't imagine what southerners that aren't used to this crap at all are going through. Fucking hell.

Being my first winter down here it certainly is interesting.

Normally I laugh at what the locals consider cold or rough driving but this shit definitely hits different down here.

By that I mean the roads, bridges, homes, and municipal services just aren't designed for it. No joke the icey roads here this week have been the most difficult driving I've ever encountered and I spent my first 36 years of life in the midwest getting hit with shit every winter. Even when I lived in rural northern Indiana and the plows are few and far between, that doesn't compare to this.

Its really wild man, especially with the grid failing and so many people out of power. Things just aren't built for this kind of cold and/or snow and you just don't realize how well prepared the north is for this kind of stuff until you experience it elsewhere and it cripples the city and burst pipes start + power outages start doing damage to homes.

I have a coworker that, a few years ago, moved to Alabama from here. They got hit with a snowstorm and a cold blast about a year later and he reported much the same. They aren't prepared for it, and had to wait for snow plows from northern states to be imported to dig out. Plus they don't have the salt/sand on hand to keep icy roads drivable. There's just no way to be ready for something that has only happened once or twice a century.

I have a feeling this type of thing will get more frequent as weather patterns are getting more and more wild through the years.

Agreed.
I mean how expensive would it be to just keep a little storage of some supplies like these and a few trucks near each major city just in case?
I can't imagine it'd be more expensive than what this is costing us.

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K-Bizzle wrote:

TurboPablo wrote:Texas is too proud to be smart.

Guess we'll see.
I'm new here and not only that but I'm in the bubble that is Austin so I have no idea how people respond.

There are multiple parts to this between transportation and utilities, interested to see how this plays out.