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code_archeologist t1_j1zqnq4 wrote

Reply to comment by CoalCrackerKid in Winter weather upends water systems across the Deep South by getBusyChild

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.

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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.

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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.

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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)

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