Winter Storms Expose Fragile Infrastructure and Poor Preparedness in New England

New England woke up to slippery roads, dangerous travel conditions, and patchy power outages this week as winter storms dumped a mixture of snow, ice, and freezing rain across the region. While just a tenth of an inch of ice may sound minor, it was enough to disrupt daily life: schools shut down early or delayed openings for safety reasons; buses stayed parked; and thousands faced power outages that exposed vulnerabilities in the electric grid. How much longer will families endure preventable disruptions from predictable winter hazards? The answer lies not in Mother Nature’s unpredictability but in government failures to...