zuesI forgot that it snows in Texas once every century. How dare they waste money on snowplows, salt and salt. I'm sure investing in equipment thats never used is a smart move.
My company is from Texas. The last time they had a storm like this was literally 80 years ago. You're the type of person who thinks money grows on trees right? If only Texas had plows and salt to use once every five decades. Oh yea I'm sure the tax payers would love that!!
Oh wow look Texas is back to normal after 4 days without power. I guess that lockdown worked better than the previous lockdowns.
Have you ever been to Texas? ..............
No you haven't.
Fairly sure that not having snowplows wasn't really the issue. The Texas grid is mostly isolated from the two other major grids of the country. After issues in 2010 and 2011 it was recommended that the grid be updated so something exactly like this didn't happen. But they didn't and it did. I guess I've always been of the mindset of "fix the problem instead of putting a bandaid on it".
If I know my windows were broken, and I just put some duct tape on it and one day I wake up to no longer having a window and snow in my bedroom...who's fault is that?
Regardless of your political views, if we really want to call ourselves the greatest nation, we should at least try to fix our 60-70-year-old infrastructure. The longer the problem goes on the more likely it is that the bill is gonna be huge when it fails.
We had some serious rainfall in my town a couple of years back. It was historic but not entirely out of the norm given the weird weather we have here. Poor civil design and a disregard of issues with roads that people knew were not up to spec led to 10s of millions of dollars in damages, the national guard being deployed, and entire communities being stranded. Largely in part because they went with bad, and probably cheaper options for a couple of culverts and all the major roads just washed away. People couldn't drink water from their taps or take showers. The water quality in the lakes and rivers damaged the fishing population etc. etc. It's an oversimplification, but if initially, or any time between when the culverts were put in and now the correct size and design had been put in... taxpayers would be footing a much smaller bill than what they had to after.
We know that flooding is going to get worse in the midwest, so I guess it makes sense to me to spend some money now to mitigate the problem so we don't have to spend a lot of money when everything gets destroyed. Unfortunately, when stuff doesn't get destroyed because the proper steps were taken people just call it a waste of money.
If I want my taxes to go to anything it would be getting the infrastructure in the states modernized.
**This post was edited on Mar 5th 2021 at 12:53:55pm
