Picture that really drives the point -

[DURHAM D]

Link to tweet

[treestar]

1. Awesome that the border

goes down the middle of a street like that.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

4. That's Texarkana for you.

At least I’m assuming it is.

Never been there personally.

[cayugafalls]

6. Highway 71 on the border. Called N. State Line Ave.

The border actually does run down the middle.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Hazel+St+Texarkana,+TX+75501,+United+States&t=vivaldi&ia=maps&iaxm=maps&strict_bbox=0&bbox=33.43666476989975,-94.04597268543807,33.43326982761501,-94.03951401835616

[TomSlick]

8. It's better than that!

There is a federal courthouse on State Line Avenue. The west half of the building is the Eastern District of Texas and the east half is the Western District of Arkansas.

[Cha]

2. Rt TY!

[Thekaspervote]

3. Suppose the political powers will learn anything? Climate destabilization is real!!

I’m just wondering how long it will b4 they will be bashing president Biden for his progressive policies on climate change.

[BigmanPigman]

5. Wow, that picture speaks a thousand words.

[GopherGal]

7. Once I read that the picture shows the Texas/Arkansas border...

I immediately knew without finishing reading of the tweet, which side was which.

[TomSlick]

10. But what's really odd about it is that the money is on the Texas side.

The poorer town invested in equipment and the richer town did not. Texarkana, Arkansas is no paragon of progressive governance but they ain't stupid.

[BeerBarrelPolka]

9. Why

Why can't the Texas county lease or rent or whatever, the plow trucks at least?

[FSogol]

11. Because you'd have to contract that BEFORE the storm hits. After the storm,

all of that equipment is being used.

Edited to add: and the price goes up rapidly. As Texas will find out when they receive their unregulated electric bills next month.

[Mariana]

13. Do you think Arkansas can spare them right now?

I imagine they're still clearing their own roads.

[TomSlick]

14. Well, as loathed as I am to defend Texans.....

There isn't just a lot of a call for snow plows in this area. (Although my little town just NE of Texarkana has a snowplow that can be mounted on a dump truck.) I don't know where Texarkana, TX would go to rent a snow plow.

If my little town not that far from Texarkana can by a bolt-on plow, Texarkana, TX could buy enough for a fleet of trucks.

[BeerBarrelPolka]

15. Thanks

Thanks for the replies

[EndlessWire]

12. OMG, that's funny! n/t