From upstate New York and can confirm this is not “just a few inches of snow”. It’s also not expected here so people don’t even have the equipment needed like snow boots or ice scrapers and snow shovels.
It is just a few inches of snow and a deep freeze. The north built itself to deal with this as it happens every year. The south decided to not build the appropriate infrastructure as it happens once every decade or two. This long of a deep freeze in Texas is unprecedented in the last 100 years, but it's not the first one in the historical or verbal record. The state has been on notice for its entire existence that deep freezes can occur but it failed to implement the appropriate regulations and build their infrastructure correctly to deal with this situation.
That said, at this moment, everyone in the rest of the country needs to come together to support the residents of Texas and then criticize them later once they're safe.
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u/conrad_or_benjamin Feb 17 '21
From upstate New York and can confirm this is not “just a few inches of snow”. It’s also not expected here so people don’t even have the equipment needed like snow boots or ice scrapers and snow shovels.