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thegreatestajax t1_j1vhbr6 wrote

Reply to comment by skilledwarman in Western NY death toll rises to 28 from cold, storm chaos by novotlr

Underestimating a severe weather event is exactly what happened in Texas.

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skilledwarman t1_j1vm1f0 wrote

Sure if you want to over simplify you could argue that

But one was decades of a government neglecting to properly maintain and keep up their states power grid while the other was people thinking that since they weathered the storm that dropped 7 feet of snow on them a couple weeks ago they'd be ready for this storm. People were caught out of their homes, were homeless and thought they could handle it without being at a real shelter or church, or got stuck out due to accidents

Not exactly the same thing

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thegreatestajax t1_j1vor0f wrote

Speaking of oversimplifying…

If the TX event had happened a few weeks before or after, it wouldn’t have been as impactful. It was a once a century event that coincided with annual winter maintenance of plants to prepare for summer. Both were complex events.

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