I remember going to Alabama for a conference years ago and snow hot right as we arrived. The city was shut down for days. There was *one* snow plow. Folks had to sleep on the highway. Daycare centers had to keep kids overnight. It was hard to access food for many.

The jokes are cute until you look a little harder and realize: cold temperatures are always a threat for the unhoused. Bad infrastructure hurts everyone-especially low-income folks and Black & brown neighborhoods. And following outages aren’t random.

This is systemic, too.

The infrastructure to deal with “weather” and “acts of God” are completely political. Ask Katrina survivors.

The wealthy almost always got ways out that the rest don’t.

This is particularly treacherous for disabled people.

This is awful.