It's America, take your pick. Any dessert you want, they have ;)

I swear some people just live on Reddit to be grammar police. It's the internet. Human error is a thing. It's not that serious.

Though let's be real, saying America is full of desserts isn't wrong either.

dude right before 'random 85 degree stormy day during winter' season too!

El Nino was real in the 90s! It was very very stormy late 90s. Also as others have said, much better alerting.

It's all about where the funding comes from- lots of funding for local highways. Not many want to go to bat with freight companies who rule the rail. Infuriating indeed :/

Also, highways were a very convenient way to keep black people out of white communities. Very important note in why the interstate system got so much support.

CSX basically has a monopoly on U.S. rail. They've had a longstanding battle with Amtrack over passenger rail. The rail system in the U.S. has almost always been a monopoly system, owned by $$$$$ freight companies. You can't just decide you want to lay down passenger tracks too, the system is set up to not allow it and the theoretical cost of adding to the rail system is astronomical, far more than many American towns and cities could afford. Very purposefully set so.

oh yes. CSX owns over 20K miles in rail and is a huge reason rail can't be expanded in many cities. Their ongoing battle with Amtrack is quite notorious, they basically have a monopoly on rail in the U.S. and rail in the U.S. has almost always been monopolized. The priorities are quite clear.