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  make sure yall get some rest. but its also not unreasonable for people to be unprepared for extremes like this.
context: Merry Christmas, if it isn’t the heat it’ll be the cold. >
  
  I work for a water utility and it’s crazy how unprepared people were for this weather. 
  We’re in an area that sees cold weather, but not this cold. Average lows might dip down into the teens a couple nights a year, but they’re somewhat rare.
  We were seeing windchills near -30F which is just unheard of. Waterlines are bursting left and right. People just didn’t have their homes set up to deal with this level of cold.
  The utility’s lines are fine, they’re all buried plenty deep enough to deal with a weekends worth of arctic cold, but the homes in the area aren’t. 
  I had 4 calls last night myself. The other 2 guys on call had at least as many as I had. I might not have 4 calls in a month lol. >
  
  What part of the country are you in? >
  
  South eastern KY