Usually, when infrastructure is built without extremes in mind, it won't withstand them. Where I live, it's an annual joke that during the heavy rain of the yea

Usually, when infrastructure is built without extremes in mind, it won't withstand them. Where I live, it's an annual joke that during the heavy rain of the year, a lot of things break, flooding occurs, etc. That's because heavy rain is relatively rare, so most infrastructure isn't really built to handle the peaks very well. I assume it's the same story.