Comment Re:2 Feet? Try 2 Inches (Score 1) 426
Certainly; we're in total agreement. I was merely responding to another poster who said that the south does not know how to deal RATIONALLY with significant amounts of snow.
It's rational to not purchase and maintain equipment that would get very little use, just as it is rational for the upper eastern seaboard to generally not worry about hurricanes.
Now, I live about 600 miles from the Gulf of Mexico, so it would be rational for me not to worry about hurricanes. Nevertheless, we had the remains of a major gulf hurricane come through here about 5-6 years ago. Even though it had reduced to tropical storm intensity, it caused a significant amount of damage. When I built my house, I insisted on using hurricane clips for the roof, and metal straps from the foundation to the first floor walls and between floors of the house, not because I expected that to protect us from a tornado (it won't) but to protect us from the periodic high winds we get here. I've lived here 8 years now, and we've had 70+MPH straight line winds on numerous occasions.
The hurricane clips were cheap insurance.