Hidden Costs

Hidden Costs

I read an article recently about the costs associated with clearing (and otherwise dealing with) snowfall in the US.

Upwards of $4 billion is plowed (ha!) into this very specific facet of maintenance and safety each year, and that’s likely to increase as weather patterns shift (dropping snow in areas without the proper infrastructure already in place, requiring new investments) and as the climate brings us increasingly dramatic versions of familiar weather events.

Here’s that piece: https://thehustle.co/why-snow-costs-america-a-fortune-every-year/

Also worth considering here: the costs associated with other types of environment-related remediation efforts, the investments we might make up-front that would lower these recurring costs, other ways we might “harden” cities and towns so that the loss of life and physical assets is diminished, and how lessons learned from neighboring fields (knowledge silos) might be applied to this maintenance/urban planning problem.

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