Well I'm finally back at work for the first time since last Monday. Last week we had ice for a couple days and the city has no way to clear it, so schools were shut down all week. Then we had the snow and cold over the weekend and early in the week so schools shut down again. My work finally opened back up today and so my wife stayed home with the kids.
We were really fortunate to not lose power or water through this. The rolling blackouts were much less severe here than Texas, but there were areas in Tulsa that were hit for an hour or two a day early in the week. As far as I know those have ended for our area. The city is dealing with something like 180 water main breaks so water pressure has become an issue in a lot of town.
I am hoping this event motivates cities in our are to at least have a little better storm preparedness. I understand that these events are pretty rare. So obviously we don't need a fleet of plows sitting around with nothing to do. But our suburb has 100,000 people in it and we have 14 plows. It's pretty ridiculous. They do not have a clearing plan for non arterial roads. So in times like this when there is prolonged cold, roads do not improve. School cannot reopen. We have to be able to do better. I hand salted the entire entrance to our neighborhood last week as the city won't do it and I am the first house off the main road and I was tried of seeing people slide.
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Originally Posted by New Era
This individual is not affluent and more of a member of that shrinking middle class. It is likely the individual does not have a high paying job, is limited on benefits, and has to make due with those benefits provided by employer.
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