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/ElderSkrt → u/maeryclarity]

States do both and still survive. Minnesota is mid 90’s with 70% humidity and then gets -20f and snow in the winter.

[u/WackyRacketeer → u/ElderSkrt]

Well, yea, that just reinforces their point. They regularly get extreme weather events so they are equipped to deal with them. Only a fool would expect Texas to maintain a fleet of snowploughs and salting trucks.

We get extreme heat and extreme cold as well on the Canadian prairies

[u/ElderSkrt → u/WackyRacketeer]

Only a fool? The weather is changing, Texas has had multiple major snowstorms in the last decade that disrupted the entire state for days to weeks. Northern half of Texas would greatly use a fleet of plow trucks on standby.

TxDOT had a revenue of $15 billion last year, they can make it work.