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I'm sure you've all heard by now that Texas got about as much snow in a day as we in Michigan get in an hour. Now, I could have picked a story having to do with Texas's crappy wind-turbines, or the food shortages, or how China was granted access to American power-grids by the fondler and chief just a few weeks prior, but you know me; I like to end on something funny.

I'm actually gonna lay most of the blame here on Arkansas here.

This makes no sense. It is a SHARED highway. It's not like the people in the Arkansas side don't, at some point, have to drive back on the Texas side. And it's not like the people on the Texas side don't eventually get to mooch off the plowed side on their way back from work or whatever. Why the fuck couldn't the asshole in charge of managing the plows just have his guys plow the Texas side and send the governor an invoice? Would that have been hard? Given how many clerks the invoice would have had to go through, it probably would have been.

Now to bitch at Texas.

700 plows for the entire giant-ass state of Texas is low. I understand why Texas has next to no plows since it's Texas, but if you're going to have so few, why bother paying for any? And, you know, this is actually a problem that could probably be better solved without the government. Local-level plow guilds would be an idea – everyone in a neighborhood chipping in so that one guy with a truck and a plow mount can clear the cul de sac? That's what a lot of people in my state do. Or, if there was absolutely no way to divorce the state government from the issue, get the people with plows for their trucks to put dash-cams on them so they can use the footage as a recipe to reimburse them for their with a bonus. Problem solved. You'd just have to remind people of the offer every year.

This is such a petty problem that neither state needs at the moment. I wouldn't expect them the get that much more snow, and it's not like as many people are driving to work anyway, but if people can't handle slick streets, what the fuck can they handle?

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