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kentauros

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34. Our infrastructure down here

Reply to orleans (Reply #33)

Wed Jan 29, 2014, 04:17 AM

Jan 2014

is set up for flooding, not freezing. We'll get heavy rains that flood the roads, and then in a few hours, they're clear again. Snow doesn't do that, and because it snows or freezes so infrequently here, there's no call for keeping that kind of equipment around, much less buying it in the first place.

Plus, no one has tires that are for frozen surfaces, or the experience to drive in such conditions, unless they're a transplant. And then they also learn to stay off the roads or get hit by inexperienced drivers

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