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What kind of weather and how bad usually does your city take before people blink and start going on holiday mode or outright slamming hard on the panic alarm to the point they get sore fists?
Here in Oregon Portland and Salem shut down during snow when we had the 2017 snow Salem got 4 inches and hardly anything happened other then some random stalled car on the Marion street bridge but in Portland it was hell on earth. Bend Oregon it takes 6+ inches of snow to even THINK of things shut things down though I think Redmond panics sooner as they will often have schools closed and Bend open.
We also don't handle rain very well on either side of the cascades. When we get an inch of rain in 24 hours the gutters overflow and water pours several inches into the street and it's not a modern day issue of poor infrastructure. It's always been that way.
Until the Resilient Ridge era (2013 +) we didn't handle heat very well either. The late 90s especially if we had a single day over 87F Portland would "bake" which the news would show people playing in the water and fountains exaggerating how "miserable" everyone is but now Portland doesn't panic until it hits over 95F due to more and more longer heat in the recent decade. 87F is now no biggie unless it happens in April. We moved from the lower mountains of Northern California in the mid 90s and whenever they would have 3 days over 87F but at or below 90F the media would meltdown meanwhile as a kid I struggled to be able to play in our pool as it just barely got warm enough to be enjoyable. Now the recent heat has higher humidity too so it's not the same as the 90s feeling. The air just feels ickier most days now.
The heavy metals in our skies day in and out from planes with no ID don't help us either and they have new words for it like "Thin clouds" not even bothering to call it cirrus anymore since it looks NOTHING like God's natural clouds. Do they think people are THAT stupid? I guess they are. The few days we DON'T get spraying usually around holidays the air gets a taste of what I remember as a kid and I feel rejuvenated until they spray again. Okay done with ranting.
What is YOUR city/town like when it comes to weather and toughness? What can you handle and what will break your area across the world? What is South America cities like at weather preparing? A lot of them are at high elevations so don't get the jungle temperatures and what comes with it. The UK has a sharp contrast too.
In San Diego, it would take a snow storm but it never snows here so that won't happen. Sometimes when it rains it seems the city should shut down as people here CANNOT DRIVE! This is especially true when it rains to the point that the California Highway patrol will actually announce that they are no longer responding to minor accidents as 300-400 can be reported in an hour.
What is YOUR city/town like when it comes to weather and toughness? What can you handle and what will break your area across the world? What is South America cities like at weather preparing? A lot of them are at high elevations so don't get the jungle temperatures and what comes with it. The UK has a sharp contrast too.
The climate in São Paulo is wet subtropical, which means that it never reaches extreme temperatures (no snow, and frost is rare even in the winter), but especially during summers it receives extremely heavy thunderstorms, to the point of flooding entire regions and causing serious damages. On the contrary, August tends to be a dry month and, because of this, the air pollutions gets sometimes very critical. I remember once that the city mayor put the city in state of alert, declaring that outdoor activities should be avoided, and classes of sports and physical education in the schools should be halted.
It does not snow in Sydney. Every few years we may get an intense rain cell with severe winds which can cause damage. But the most potentially dangerous weather is bushfire weather which can occasionally result in fires in the metropolitan area. Last summer the temperature reached F116 one day and that causes people to be on alert.
Usually rain and lots of it. Though i would not say people panic, been a hilly place not all areas of the city flood, and thoes who live in areas that do flood are never far from one that does not.
Last major flood was in 2011, which pretty much put the city on hold for a week. In 2017 a cyclone crossed the coast and came down to the city and dumped up to 900mm (36 inches) in a day in the moutains surrounding the city. Most schools were closed and office workers in the city stayed at home that day.
Brisbane does not have a major problem with fires like the other major cities in australia.
What kind of weather and how bad usually does your city take before people blink and start going on holiday mode or outright slamming hard on the panic alarm to the point they get sore fists?
Here in Oregon Portland and Salem shut down during snow when we had the 2017 snow Salem got 4 inches and hardly anything happened other then some random stalled car on the Marion street bridge but in Portland it was hell on earth. Bend Oregon it takes 6+ inches of snow to even THINK of things shut things down though I think Redmond panics sooner as they will often have schools closed and Bend open.
We also don't handle rain very well on either side of the cascades. When we get an inch of rain in 24 hours the gutters overflow and water pours several inches into the street and it's not a modern day issue of poor infrastructure. It's always been that way.
Until the Resilient Ridge era (2013 +) we didn't handle heat very well either. The late 90s especially if we had a single day over 87F Portland would "bake" which the news would show people playing in the water and fountains exaggerating how "miserable" everyone is but now Portland doesn't panic until it hits over 95F due to more and more longer heat in the recent decade. 87F is now no biggie unless it happens in April. We moved from the lower mountains of Northern California in the mid 90s and whenever they would have 3 days over 87F but at or below 90F the media would meltdown meanwhile as a kid I struggled to be able to play in our pool as it just barely got warm enough to be enjoyable. Now the recent heat has higher humidity too so it's not the same as the 90s feeling. The air just feels ickier most days now.
The heavy metals in our skies day in and out from planes with no ID don't help us either and they have new words for it like "Thin clouds" not even bothering to call it cirrus anymore since it looks NOTHING like God's natural clouds. Do they think people are THAT stupid? I guess they are. The few days we DON'T get spraying usually around holidays the air gets a taste of what I remember as a kid and I feel rejuvenated until they spray again. Okay done with ranting.
What is YOUR city/town like when it comes to weather and toughness? What can you handle and what will break your area across the world? What is South America cities like at weather preparing? A lot of them are at high elevations so don't get the jungle temperatures and what comes with it. The UK has a sharp contrast too.
In NYC pretty much nothing short of a hurricane or actual blizzard will prevent folks from going to work. The determining factor is whether the MTA is open or not lol.
Heavy snow. If we only have an inch or two it doesn't do a lot though, just a few delays, but nothing out of the ordinary. When the snow is heavier, like a foot deep, then it becomes really problematic for one day.
I can't think of any other type of weather issue that would create chaos. Until we get flooded in 2060 because of global warming, that is.
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