Right but surely you can see how if this is a once in a generation storm for this area, it wouldn’t make much sense to have Michigan infrastructure? It costs a lot of money to maintain all of that. They didn’t let it get so icy because they wanted to or they didn’t care… they don’t have the resources here to prevent that. And what resources we do have were also desperately needed by the entire east coast, because the storm reached as far south as Georgia and as far north as Massachusetts. So there wasn’t enough salt to go around.
I’m not so much disagreeing with anything you’ve said, just expressing frustration at the lack of preparedness that Maryland and VA had with this storm. Its not like having the necessary resources is impossible. It’s all about the funding to private businesses that specialize in snow and ice removal.
In my job, we had a client come in who used to own a plowing business in the 80s and 90s here and he said that what he had seen this winter was a joke. He would have his people parked at the malls an entire day in advance to salt it and they would stay there until it was plowed.
Anecdotal example, but given how the entire state looked for the past month, I think he made a good point.
Well in the 80s and 90s we weren’t as conscientious of the effect all that salt has on our watershed. Even the amount they had to use for the storm the other week is going to have a very negative impact on our local waters… but it’s a bit over shadowed by. You know. The poopageddon.
I’ve just had my feed speckled with WTF WHY IS THIS SNOW STILL HERE for weeks now and it gets frustrating to me bc no one seems to want to acknowledge what a freak storm this was. Maybe because it wasn’t 4 feet high like 2010 was, it’s not as obvious how bad this was?
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u/Tempyteacup Feb 22 '26
Right but surely you can see how if this is a once in a generation storm for this area, it wouldn’t make much sense to have Michigan infrastructure? It costs a lot of money to maintain all of that. They didn’t let it get so icy because they wanted to or they didn’t care… they don’t have the resources here to prevent that. And what resources we do have were also desperately needed by the entire east coast, because the storm reached as far south as Georgia and as far north as Massachusetts. So there wasn’t enough salt to go around.