re: #194 A Mom Anon

A friend of mine’s husband left for his job yesterday afternoon at 3:30. He got to work this morning at 6. It took my husband 3 hours to get the 6 miles from work to home last night. He couldn’t get up the driveway and had to park on the sidewalk in front of the house. Crazy thing is, it’s supposed to get up to 60 by Friday afternoon.

We have no snow removal equipment down here outside of the city and a couple of rural counties up north. Because people have a fucking cow when it’s brought up that maybe some taxes ought to be raised for it. This county practically called for the removal of a politician who said we should have at least salt and trucks in reserve in case something like this happens. Folks down here aren’t big on planning much, unless of course it’s stockpiling guns for some future emergency.

Well, if this had been an extended emergency they would have had the guns available to go loot the neighbors with (or to hold off looting attempts *by* the neighbors.)
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It is a tricky trade-off though. Paying for seldom-used equipment that you have to store and maintain against an emergency that may never come under your watch. And the associated opportunity cost of what those funds could otherwise provide.