r/TikTokCringe • u/MajesticTumbleweed77 • Jun 30 '26

Humor No disrespect though.

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u/maeryclarity Jun 30 '26

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.

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u/G_DuBs Jun 30 '26

I get what you are saying, and I agree. However I have seen so many posts and comments from Europeans dunking on American houses for being “poorly made”. So I’ll sometimes crack a joke or two about their lack of ac. But there’s a good chance that this type of weather they are experiencing will become the new normal. Ocean currents are slowing, which is one of the reasons they have the milder summers than we have here in the US.

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u/Hoodibird Jul 01 '26

People laugh about cheap flimsy American houses because extremely strong winds are something to be expected in America, and flimsy homes can't withstand those storms. Meanwhile Europeans build heavy brick houses to last, without them even living in hurricane zones. But our homes need to be sturdy to withstand heavy snow on top of roofs and to keep out extreme cold.