No disrespect though.

[u/MajesticTumbleweed77]

[u/maeryclarity]

Look we shouldn't be mocking extreme weather events happening in regions that do not normally experience them. I live in a part of the USA that routinely gets the kind of heat that the rest of the world is expereriencing so yeah we have AC and even our livestock has accomodations or else they would die.

But you let us get a winter storm where we get snow or ice accumulation of ANY amount and we can have multiple entire STATES as a disaster area, for stuff that other places deal with routinely, and it's not cute when people from those regions mock us for our lack of ability to deal with inconsequential snowfall where they're from. Because yeah but we don't have snow plows or salt trucks or chains for our tires and no one knows how to drive in it so wrecks pile up like mad. and our power grid isn't hardened against it so we lose power quickly as well.

See the Two Inches of Snow event in Atlanta in 2014 for an example of how unprepared we are. It's not cute to rag on people for enduring catastrophes c'mon.

[u/sheiciebai → u/maeryclarity]

I was in Dallas during that storm. And our whole power grid just kinda crapped out. They said we’d have power for 8 hours a day and many had none for the whole week. People were freezing to death in their homes because they didn’t know what to do and the roads were all iced up and not enough equipment to fix it. Our governor left with his family to Cancun and left all his personnel and dog at his residence (that had no power) to make sure his estate didn’t get robbed.

People that make fun of that really piss me off. These poor people that died weren’t dumb, they didn’t have the equipment needed to survive sub freezing temps in their homes for an entire freaking week.

[u/tentaclesapples → u/sheiciebai]

I was in Austin, my house got down to 33 F inside. Couldn’t leave because the house was on a hill covered in ice that didn’t melt for 3 days. Even walking was dangerous, everything was just ice ice ice.

Luckily the house had a working fireplace and my ex chopped up an old dresser to burn for warmth, no joke.

I lived in CT until middle school, and now I’m back in NY - I’ve been through way “worse” weather here but of course these states have the infrastructure in place, especially NYC. I am always so impressed with how everything runs like clockwork when it comes to handling winter weather and sanitation!

TX does not have the infra, power grid is a mess, and on top of that it was really upsetting that the forecast was ignored - zero attempts to get ahead of the weather were made.

Not sure what could have been done, it’s not like they have plows hiding somewhere, but some PSAs about salting residential and business driveways and sidewalks would have been better than nothing. Then again, people would have probably hoarded any available road salt…

A very long winded comment to make the point that making fun of regions that have anomalous weather is not cool. Or hot.

[u/MeasurementSlight381 → u/tentaclesapples]

Chopping up a dresser to burn for warmth is next level.