No, my point was that it's more about infrastructure (in the case of Sandy), than individual preparedness. Your point about Miami and Hurricane Andrew proves mine, actually - when dense urban areas are affected by hurricanes, it's not individual planning that matters as much. You'll still be screwed. On the…

I think we agree, actually! I was just pointing out the differences between structural preparedness and individual preparedness, because it seems like a lot of people on this thread are equating things like stocking up on canned goods or wearing a coat to the institutional stuff. Lack of snow plows and lack of urban…

I get that and agree with you. The point I was trying to make, though, is that there's a difference between a smaller weather event that requires individuals to be prepared and/or handle driving and other daily activities (which can still be complicated) and an event that, for people in areas that are impacted, is…

Re: hurricanes - population density. That's part of what made Sandy different. There's no handling something like that when the areas affected are normally populated by tens of millions of people densely packed together. Re: tornadoes - you are aware that the population of snow-people above the Mason Dixon line…

We have hills up here, just FYI. And sometimes they are covered in ice. You're right that it's bad, but it's sort of funny that you're telling people about it as if it's something they may not have already known about.

CAPITAL LETTERS. We know cars do those things - the fact that it's caps lock worthy news to you is kind of what people are laughing at. Not the fact that it happened, because it sucks whenever weather shuts places down and/or accidents happen, but the fact that there are people on here telling us about things like…

Oh, you as individual might not, but yes many southerners absolutely do. And the difference, when they do it, is that most of the weather phenomena they're talking about are things many northerners do experience and manage to deal with, like heat, tornadoes etc.

OK. But "you should experience our tornado season"? There are so many places that get tons of snow, lots of tornadoes (much of the Midwest/plains states), and very hot and humid summers. Sometimes - just sometimes - when you're talking to people who don't agree with you, it's not just because they've never…

You're not familiar with the concept of population density, are you? Sandy was significant because it hit our most densely populated city and most densely populated state, making it one of the most costly storms in history. It wasn't as much about "not being prepared" as it was about "not being able to change the…

I don't like weather exaggeration either, but isn't this a thread about understanding that weather impacts places differently? That tiny storm hit the most densely populated places in this country, and people died and lost their homes. Things - like snow in Alabama - are a big deal when they're out of the ordinary,…

You do realize that there are tons of places (Chicago, New York, most of the Midwest, DC, the list goes on...) where extremely cold/snowy and extremely hot happen every single year, right? And that some of these places are urban and lack the car culture of the South, so most of the people you're saying couldn't do…

She didn't say she was. Stop trying to turn this into a situation where both parties are behaving in ways that are equally entitled or have equal implications. This is not one of those situations. Literally no one in this comments section has said that they feel entitled to friendship from anyone they want it from…

And you know what? I think there's a reason that there aren't entire communities on the internet devoted to women proclaiming that they deserve friendship from every man they might want it from.

But people only say they were "friendzoned" once the other person HAS done the things you're saying they need to do (ie: saying you're not interested and it's never going to happen). They are literally referring to what they felt happened once someone communicated those things to them. Before someone conveyed that…

You're right - in a desire to be snarky, I wasn't factually correct. That is not good. I think, in this case, that there might be something in the "freedom of speech does not include the right of students to make an obscene speech at a school-sponsored event" ballpark, though. The frat is associated with the school…

If people aren't learning in college that "freedom of speech" doesn't mean what they think it means, where on Earth are they going to learn it so that the rest of the adult world doesn't have to deal with their bullshit down the road?

See, they think of government as physical object of sorts. And because of all these Democrats, there's just too much government lying around - we have to put it somewhere! Thank God women were born with storage containers inside their bodies so we have somewhere to keep it, amirite?

Yet another person reminding us that "that side of you that isn't about work" is something that should only be respected (or even talked about) when it comes to marriage and children. It is possible to nurture things, if one is nurturing, that don't involve a traditional "family". It is also possible for the…

Someone may have already said this, but it really matters where you decide to go if you choose to transfer. I transferred at the beginning of my sophomore year, and I went to a school that accepts lots of transfer students and does helpful things like house them together and have a separate orientation for them. …