JW> Eastern Canada got hit with the same storm with the same severity one day
 JW> later. But we are better equipped to handle it so it doesn't become a
 JW> crisis. Our municipal governments have bigger budgets (from higher taxes)
 JW> to dig out, with larger fleets of bigger equipment. And, as we get them
 JW> more often, people are better prepared and know how to cope.

Just like here then.

 JW> Plus I think the American media dramatize everything too much.

Sure.

//Bj”rn

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