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It's remarkable how quickly our vehicles and roads succumb to such conditions. I used to drive that route on I95, and in the winter I would always pack a blanke
by 58x14 5y ago
It's remarkable how quickly our vehicles and roads succumb to such conditions. I used to drive that route on I95, and in the winter I would always pack a blanket and bottled water. I can only imagine having children with me.
From an infrastructure perspective, realistically, I suppose it isn't feasible to account for more extreme snowfall.
- asdff 5y agoIt's easy to account for extreme snowfall, you look at the weather report. Other states just close stretches of the freeways and focus their plows on keeping some local roads open. VDOT saw the weather report and failed to account for their plowing capacity and decided to keep this road open. These drivers wouldn't have even been on that road if this storm happened in another state.
- mrweasel 5y agoIt's not just in the US. Denmark had a snowstorm about a month ago and it was chaos because people take stupid risks. Large numbers of people drive around on summer tires as well as the majority of both trucks and busses. If people only put themselves at risk, fine. The issue is when trucks and people who felt compelled to drive on summer tires, in a snowstorm, during covid, block the roads and prevent the remaining population from getting home safely.
- scifi6546 5y agoa big part of it is how prepared both the government and the people are. In fairbanks, alaska we recently had a much larger storm and although many people lost power for a couple of days and most of the town was stuck at home we recovered pretty much immediately after the snow stopped falling. For many town along the coast large winter storms are normal so they recover even quicker.
- jakub_g 5y agoSouthern France, same. The highways get closed when it snows, or due to heavy rainfall (happens a few days per decade)