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How do electric vechicles hold up in something like this?
Not well, the heater is a major drain. If you stop the heater, the batteries get cold and perform significantly worse.
The ineptitude of the state governments in DC/VA/MD is amazing to me. Snow happens in these places?
I live in Seattle now, public transport is infinitely better, and the roads are better (though they still kinda suck). Baffles the mind.
The ineptitude of the state governments in DC/VA/MD is amazing to me. Snow happens in these places?
DC, btw, is not a state, and has no "state government".
How do electric vechicles hold up in something like this?
Regardless if you're in a place where this could happen you should have a box of chemical handwarmers, a heavy blanket, food, water, and other stuff in a box for emergencies.
Edit: looks like I'm wrong, much better answers below!
Some _fast_ and reliable mass transit like the trains in Japan/Europe sure would be nice to help alleviate situations like this and general traffic.
Interesting to consider that the oil industry may have made a mistake by reframing “global warming” as “climate change”. Harder for people to see events like this as part of “global warning” while it is more understandable as a consequence of “climate change”
It wasn't "the oil industry", but climate activists who, during a period when the earth wasn't warming starting around 1998, decided to reframe it as "climate change" in order to maintain the sense of crisis.
While the planet overall is warming, the extra energy in the system can actually make colder in some places.
For example, by enabling stronger storm systems to push arctic air farther south than previously.
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People are also stuck on Amtrak in VA https://www.upmatters.com/news/national/snow-stalls-amtrak-i...
That happens even without snow. I've been stuck on Amtrak trains because there was some object on the track (crashed vehicles) and the train just sat there for hours and they refuse to open the doors even though were were in the center of Oakland and could have happily just walked out. Amtrak is not a great example of how trains should work.
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> there are no alternative roads to take if this one road closes. US Route 1 basically parallels I-95 in most of VA. I was once detoured on it after a military HAZMAT incident. It’s slow going, but it works.
Route 1 seems like a local-road to me with lots of traffic lights though. I-95 works really well as long as its clear. But as soon as an emergency happens, the spillover traffic is too massive for Route 1 to ever hope to handle. An interstate-highway can't rely upon a traffic-light laden local road to handle the traffic from a 4-lane interstate. EDIT: In the case of the 2017 eclipse, the traffic was so heavy that tru…
Interesting to consider that the oil industry may have made a mistake by reframing “global warming” as “climate change”. Harder for people to see events like this as part of “global warning” while it is more understandable as a consequence of “climate change”
It wasn't "the oil industry", but climate activists who, during a period when the earth wasn't warming starting around 1998, decided to reframe it as "climate change" in order to maintain the sense of crisis.
There are various articles and interviews with him on this topic. Layoff has an excellent discussion of the topic too.
Interesting to consider that the oil industry may have made a mistake by reframing “global warming” as “climate change”. Harder for people to see events like this as part of “global warning” while it is more understandable as a consequence of “climate change”
It wasn't "the oil industry", but climate activists who, during a period when the earth wasn't warming starting around 1998, decided to reframe it as "climate change" in order to maintain the sense of crisis.