https:\/\/youtu.be\/ASWK8dQe_ZA<\/a>\nYou can like her politics or not, but at least we as a nation have hope that there are some moderately-competent politicians in the pipeline for less disastrous election years to come.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, let\u2019s talk about South Carolina\u2019s habit of taking personal days every time the weather gets extreme on us. \u00a0By \u201cextreme\u201d we mean \u201cno good for either swimming, or fishing, or golf, now what??\u201d<\/p>\n
Why do we shut down?<\/p>\n
Why do we evacuate the coast three days ahead of a storm that might be terrible, but it also might not amount to much by the time it gets here? \u00a0Why do we stay home for the mere possibility of a inch of snow?<\/p>\n
It\u2019s because we have poverty and humility both.<\/p>\n
We ask ourselves things like, \u201cWhich is worse: Three days forced vacation in the upstate, or becoming the new Katrina?\u201d \u00a0The upstate\u2019s nice. \u00a0\u201cWhich is worse: Kids who don\u2019t own winter coats stuck in freezing buses on the highways like happened in Atlanta when they got surprised by too much snow, or sitting around with the family having a cup a cocoa?\u201d \u00a0Cocoa for the win.<\/p>\n
We aren\u2019t omniscient. \u00a0We can know a lot about what might happen with the weather, but we can\u2019t know everything.<\/p>\n
We do know that our infrastructure is modestly decent for day-to-day living, but no one\u2019s invented a Magic Expanding and Strengthifying Ray to cause our roads and bridges and hotel supply to suddenly grow 10,000 times bigger if we need to quick empty the entire coast in half an hour.<\/p>\n
The work-around is to rely on caution, preparation, and solidarity. \u00a0Why yes, the schools in Greenville have to shut down so that Charleston can evacuate, because we don\u2019t keep a fleet of buses sitting in parking lots waiting for a big hurricane to strike every twenty years. We just borrow the Greenville school buses.<\/p>\n
Or take snow. \u00a0We could divert lots of funding into storing snow plows and chemicals and all the stuff they use up north to keep the roads running through the winter, and that stuff could sit in storage most days of most years. \u00a0Every other year or so it would get used one day. \u00a0Or: You could just go home and be with your family for that day.<\/p>\n
If we had solved all our poverty problems, and gotten our roads and sidewalks and dams and bridges in order, and were wondering what to do with all the tax revenue sitting around after the schools got so shiny and stellar cash just bounced off the walls, maybe we\u2019d be in a position to allocate more funds to the Never Having To Take Off Work For The Weather cause.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re not in that position.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, remember kids: The South is terrible and backwards. \u00a0Stay away. \u00a0You\u2019ll hate it here.<\/p>\n
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