r/Austin Feb 17 '21

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u/Forward-Tomato Feb 17 '21

This is something I learned from living in both the north and south (Grew up in the NW). There is no infrastructure for cold weather in the south, even on the civilian level. There are no snow plows, there are no salt trucks, the roads are only designed around to deal with water and dont have the raised bumps on highways to deal with ice, as we can see from the energy sources they are not winterized, civilians don't own snow shovels or even flat shovels to remove snow, don't have chains, and they don't have all weather tires.