WTF do people live in insanely cold places?

Well we know how the trees will feel once the cold is over.

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Yep. Preparation and infrastructure to support cold stretches goes a long way. And truth is most cold places most of the winter aren’t at 2 degrees that Texas is current at. Most of winter even in Anchorage it’s 20 to 30 degrees which is a bearable cold if you dress for it.

With climate change we are going to continue to see more of these polar blast mega storms and Texas better prepare for more extreme weather on both ends. 98 degrees is much different than 116 degrees. I can build a fire. I can’t do a damn thing with 116 degrees if my Ac goes out.

 

we've seen less and less hard freezes for less duration.

 

Feels like the opposite.

I think it snowed like once in the thirty years I spent in East Texas, but in the 8 years since I left its happened like three times or something crazy.

 

if it makes y'all feel better it hasn't crossed 0 F in the last four days here in Minneapolis.

 

I'm from Houston and I can tell you from that perspective. 1989 and 1982 were worse according to frank billingsly.

 

The temperature briefly got to 1 degree Thursday (coincidentally shortly after we landed), otherwise the all time consecutive hours below 0 record would be in jeopardy.

 

A lot less people living here, however.

 

way less demand on power grid for sure.

 

A few weeks out of the yr where it gets really cold down here and of course people aren't used to it JUST as people up north whine like little BI/%^ES when temps get above 90 degrees.

Funny how you see more people from the north moving to the south than people from the south moving north. I think we all know why. I've lived in both by the way.

 

Spent 10 years in Omaha for work, loved that town but hated the 4-5 months of hell called Winter

 

I've done both...moved north to south and back again. I like the north...I never could get used to not having 4 distinct seasons and I missed the spectacular summers here. But that's just me.

 

I definitely do miss the fall weather and the beautiful foliage. To each his own.

 

Now due to climate change, the insanely cold places come to you.

 

If TX cities started spending money buying salt trucks and salt for the roads that would be a bad idea. I understand the roads are bad but for TX where events like this are rare it would be a bad idea to deal with it with road salt. Leaving aside that salt trucks and salt itself is very expensive it's not good for the environment and damaging to cars and the road. Roads here in cold climates are built to handle it while the roads in TX aren't.

This is the same reason that I don't recommend for people in TX to salt their sidewalks or driveways.

Instead of salt should use sand. This will provide traction without being as damaging as salt and cheaper. Plus TX already has a lot of sand. It can be distributed using equipment that cities already have.

Just to note I've heard from friends from Denver that Denver uses very little road salt but rely on sand. While they get ice and snow it doesn't stick around for as long as Minneapolis so as long as they can maintain traction usually ice is gone within a few days.

 

They've been sanding the roads in Austin but even some of the sand trucks are even sliding into ditches. When the snow storm hit us a few weeks ago, the city had trucks pretreating the roads to prevent icing. That never happened this time. Now the city is scrambling to deice the roads and lay down sand, but the constant moisture and temps continue to refreeze the ice. There was a serious colossal failure from all government services.

 

Dallas has used sand instead of salt for a while now. I always wondered about that but never researched it smh. Thanks for your post.

 

Plumbers are scammers. I called Abacus for a leaky faucet a year ago, the plumber talked up a big deal about finding the part he needed and as soon as I paid the $400 he went to his truck and fixed it in 10 minutes.

People are about to be scammed and it's going to make the news

 

First of all, that video was hilarious. The snow plow got me, I laughed out loud sitting here by myself.

I will never forget as long as I live: I made a delivery once in NW Houston. Big company, other drivers there as well. The gentleman from the big rig was asking for water and let me tell you, my man needed water. He was sweating so profusely that it was obvious this wasn't his home. Patrick Ewing was there, Ewing was like damn fool are you ok? Here's some water.

He was from Nova Scotia and it was a classic humid Houston summer day. The comparison is one of us going somewhere that's like 130 degrees with even more oppressive levels of humidity. I don't think that place exists ::waits to be proven wrong::

TL;DR they wonder why we spend our lives in actual hellfire.