> “I can’t believe how those southerners can’t handle 1 below freezing and half an inch of snow, it’s not even that cold”… > Because infrastructure is built i

> “I can’t believe how those southerners can’t handle 1 below freezing and half an inch of snow, it’s not even that cold”… > Because infrastructure is built in a local context, where materials, designs et cetera are chosen on what is/was normal. I’m genuinely curious: do you really not understand this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32154999 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32154999 Seems many people in this thread have trouble understanding that most of the infrastructure we build is built for the people living there under the conditions they normally experience, not for "freak" outliers like this. Similar to how if there is snow in southern Europe, most infrastructure shuts down while in Russia they run trains through snowstorms. But if it gets tiny bit too hot in Siberia, the trains shut down while in southern Europe they survive no matter how hot it gets.