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CoalCrackerKid t1_j1znnt6 wrote
We don't need no dadgum infrastructure. That'd just be more tax dollars that can't go towards high school & college football coaches.
bdubdub t1_j1zqusd wrote
The solution is clearly more privatization. Everyone needs to purchase and install a large water tank at their home and water will be trucked in weekly. /s
ghostalker4742 t1_j20882b wrote
I don't think the /s is needed there. That seems like a very plausible Nestle solution. Lots of people have propane/heating oil delivered to a storage tank, water wouldn't be any different.
And you know they'd market it towards the rugged individual, who now won't have to rely on the socialist water network and only has to pay for what they use. It'll be a lot more expensive in the end, but they'll pat themselves on the back for their forward flawed thinking.
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code_archeologist t1_j1zqnq4 wrote
It's not so much that the infrastructure down here is decayed (though some is), it is that we don't bury our water and sewer pipes as deep into the ground as is done in the North There is usually no need to.
As a result when the temperatures got down into the single digits, the ground got cold enough to cause the water in those pipes to freeze.
CoalCrackerKid t1_j1zr6xy wrote
Per the article, Jackson,Mississippi has been having problems since August.
It's not generally cold in Mississippi in August.
The problem is the infrastructure.
code_archeologist t1_j1zrf4d wrote
That's one city, there are numerous other cities without Infrastructure problems who are dealing with broken water mains because of the cold.
CoalCrackerKid t1_j1zteta wrote
Stipulated. Jackson, Mississippi is one city.
You're misdirect, however, is pretending that there's only one problem.
Take Asheville, NC if you'd like to drill-into another. Lost water because their treatment facility that starts the whole water supply chain shutdown.
It's a series of systemic infrastructure issues that only time and hard work will address.
(and, for those from Asheville, y'all deserve credit for starting/completing as much of it as you have...your dam work was a lot of damn work. Still more to do, though)
rokatoro t1_j1zocw2 wrote
It will stay that way as long as FEMA is capable of swooping in and fixing everything with more federal money when shit actually hits the fan
CoalCrackerKid t1_j1zqklw wrote
We don't need to lessen FEMA's abilities.
We just need to send states more bills.
Say, well heads freeze in TX (again) this year, and the Feds find that no actions were taken from the last several outages (see report from 2011 below). Help them. Then, bill them.
rokatoro t1_j1zri3e wrote
Don't get me wrong, I think FEMA serves an important role, I just feel like to many local governments use it as the main form of infrastructure maintenance and not the last line of defense
CoalCrackerKid t1_j1ztmdq wrote
Got it...and I feel ya. If only we can stop rebuilding beachfront condos for the rich who watch them wash away every couple of years due to hurricanes.
Zerole00 t1_j20zwld wrote
>We just need to send states more bills.
These shit states already take more federal dollars than they give back, what would increasing the discrepancy achieve?
CoalCrackerKid t1_j21k93j wrote
I think you misunderstood.
Bill the states that need the service for the services that they consume.
They'd be for that because, of course, distributing the costs to other states would be socialism. I hear that they hate that.
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