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argonautweakend posted...

They want to secede but get foiled by 3 inches of snow and 20 degree weather.

Something tells me that would be a failed nation.

To be fair, many normally-cold areas would be similarly screwed over by the sort of heat and drought conditions that are normal for much of Texas, much like the east coast would be crippled by earthquakes that the west coast would laugh off. Nobody builds infrastructure to withstand environmental conditions they have almost no chance of ever seeing. That'd just be wasteful. This is why climate change is such a problem: it's going to introduce extreme weather events to regions that have never had to be prepared for them, with devastating results.

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