Sorry, I haven't really been able to keep up with things, had to sleep for like 8 hours. Talk of total state collapse? What happened with the weather?

    • Kresimir [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      Heard someone say that most municipalities in the northern states and Canada own more snow clearing infrastructure on their own than the entire state of Texas put together. Also, what will the melted snow do to the cities that are basically concrete bowls? Is there going to be flooding?

      • D61 [any]
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        4 years ago

        Probably not a lot of flooding but in cities, areas that get enough sunlight to melt will make enough liquid that will refreeze in places where the sun can't hit. So I imagine that storm drains are probably going to be clogged with ice and snow pack so roadways and sidewalks will be a sloggy icy nightmare for a while after the air temps raise to above freezing.

      • EldritchMayo [he/him,comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        Pretty much. I live in southern Canada, and looking at a depth map I see that on average Texas got like a foot of snow. Yesterday we got about that much snow on top of the foot that was already on the ground. By lunchtime my relatively small town was cleared out. There were no power outages, only school cancellations for a day and today the roads are clear and everything is back to normal. The temperature is 4 degrees Fahrenheit with wind chill. So I would absolutely think we have more snow plows than Texas.

        Edit: by pretty much I was referring to the snow clearing, not flooding. Snow melts really slowly and in the spring everything just gets slushy and mushy, flooding probably won’t happen.

        • Kresimir [they/them]
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          4 years ago

          I also live in Canada and I thought of flooding based on the big River meltwater floods that happen in the prairies, but I doubt that would be as issue except in places that sit on top of major river basins.

          We haven't gotten snow in weeks because it's been too cold, regularly reaching -50 with the wind, thanks to the top end of the same weather patterns in Texas