I mean, when there was snow back in February of '09, people were incensed at the lack of preparation for the snow and ice, and the various local authorities made the excuse that "well, you know, this happens so rarely here, you can't expect us to devote the resources that places that get this kind of weather all the time do".
Then they got hit again in December, and that's carrying right on into January.
Statistically, they're right, but I imagine two big winter events in successive winters is going to cause a bit of a rethink.
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Date: 2010-01-08 04:28 pm (UTC)I mean, when there was snow back in February of '09, people were incensed at the lack of preparation for the snow and ice, and the various local authorities made the excuse that "well, you know, this happens so rarely here, you can't expect us to devote the resources that places that get this kind of weather all the time do".
Then they got hit again in December, and that's carrying right on into January.
Statistically, they're right, but I imagine two big winter events in successive winters is going to cause a bit of a rethink.
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Date: 2010-01-08 05:06 pm (UTC)I can report, having been there at the time, that the Winter 2009 snow was really uneven and nothing like this past winter.
Yeah. The fact that last year's snow hit the southeast disproportionately hard had the usual effect on media, government, and popular attention.