we just got hit with a tropical storm a week ago. nobody said shit because it wasnt as much rain. this Ida remnants was double what that was and a few dozen poors got killed. we get lots of big storms. in february we had an endless amount of snow. so much so that it took forever for it all to melt. driving around in that shit was insane. not the snow. it was just snow. but people did such a shit tier job of cleaning their properties that most of it was on the road and the snow plows did a piss poor job to begin with. so we were driving on ice for a month. fucking shit state with shit people in it. dont let anyone tell you we have it easy here all the time. yeah, we have mild weather 8 months out of the year, but we get snow and rain the 4 remaining months to make up for it. its always been like that, some years its not bad, sometimes its bad and sometimes we get fucked hard. this year it was between bad and fucked hard. the year isnt over yet.
Weather is not the problem. People are the problem. Root cause every problem in the world and 99% of them have people as the issue.
its not overt, its stuff like, "pfft, the rain that killed 27 in NJ is just florida weather here." "pfft, your 30 inch snowfall is just a dusting in Minnesota. schools still stay open." . i dont disagree, but our infra is only equipped to handle certain weather up to a point. many people live near rivers and streams which dot the state. when it gets heavy the rivers overflow and people get flooded basements or sometimes end up dead. we know how to winter here, but at some point too much winter is too much especially if the dipshits in charge kicked back money to their tribe members and so the city/towns dont get plowed anymore after the third storm.
I know I've talked about it before, but this is what we saw in Biloxi after Katrina. Except it was towards the top of the second story.
