Neal Freiman

Toronto received 18 inches, nearly a record.

And for the first time in more than 10 years, D.C., Baltimore, Philly, New York City and Boston all received at least six inches of snow.

Toby, this was a monster and its impacts are going to linger for at least a few days.

Yeah, everyone was looking at Texas specifically.

Five years ago, there was this massive winter storm, Uri, that knocked out the power grid down in Texas, which is not connected to the grids elsewhere in the United States.

So they did a lot of weatherization efforts in the past five years to beef up their infrastructure.

And it seems like, for the most part, that held steady this time around.

And what was unique about this particular storm is that it did hit the south and it hit certain states and cities that don't typically see a lot of cold weather, nasty weather, ice, snow, the like.

So

If you were in Nashville, the talk of the town was this new snowplow called Dolly Ploughton.

And she was part of a new fleet of snowplows that the city invested in.

They have five new trucks.

They cost about $350,000 a piece.

Nashville has been growing like a weed over the past couple of decades.

There's a lot of northerners coming down there to move and they feel to live.

and Nashville and other Southern cities are not necessarily prepared.

They don't have all the infrastructure that Northern cities do to carry away the snow.

And so just like an inch or two can kind of paralyze the city.

So Nashville is investing over millions of dollars here to improve their snow infrastructure.

And meanwhile, in Northern cities, they're only beefing up their tech to give people more accessibility and transparency into how this snow removal process