I concur with the Nashville observation. As someone from a state that gets a regular dose of heavy snow each year, I never understood how a metropolitan area like Nashville could be so helpless when the slightest dusting of snow arrived.

Up here in the NYC area, we’ve been well acquainted with rain and snow, but there’s still one natural phenomenon that baffles commuters: floods. Because the water drainage system in this area is about as old as the country itself, floods tend to happen with some regularity in port cities like New York, Hoboken, and Jersey City. So you’d think that we’d learn how to deal with them a little better than we do. Call me a sadist, but I never get tired of watching people try to drive through flooded streets as if they are attempting to ford a river on the Oregon Trail.