re: #81 ckkatz

The DC area just went through a winter fiasco. And guess what? We get to do it again!

Winter weather advisory issued for snow and slick roads on Thursday night
washingtonpost.com

Which is simply a periodic happening for places like that and further south.

They don’t have winter weather events of that scale often enough to feel they need to spend the money to keep and maintain a sufficient stock of snow removal equipment and associated materials (salt, sand, whatever). So the city and highways get paralyzed for multiple days while they dig out. (IIRC, Atlanta got hit by 3-4” a few years ago and was out of commission.) And there is hand-wringing afterwards, followed by things not changing.

And I’d state that this doesn’t compare to the Texas power grid since roads being messed up is generally less dangerous to the public at large (stay at home and off the roads) as compared to a power failure which leads to people freezing to death at home itself.

I experienced the big Veterans’ Day snow storm in the DC area in 1987 (11.5”) first hand. Including getting stuck on I-95 for about seven hours.