In the north of China, especially in the northeast and northwest, strong winds, heavy snow and severe cold are much worse than those in the south (in some places, the first snow in winter will not melt until the next spring), which will definitely bring some inconvenience to people's lives and work, but I have never heard of harmful losses caused by these facilities. Why? First, relevant departments have corresponding plans, and second, these facilities have strong resilience.
Personally, I feel that it will take a long time to improve the risk resistance of these facilities, which will inevitably increase the cost greatly. What can be operated immediately at present is the anti-risk plan of relevant departments.
For example, in winter, the sanitation department of northern cities has a very important job, which is to keep in touch with the meteorological department by special personnel to understand the future weather trends. Once it snows, vehicles will be dispatched to spray deicer immediately, so that even if it snows heavily, it will only slow down road traffic without causing traffic disruption. At the same time, the public transport department will increase vehicle investment, shorten the departure interval and ensure the normal flow of personnel. After the rail vehicles are closed at night, they still run in the night sky to avoid the track ice and snow;
Another example is: highway division between cities, social bidding, and social force contracting. The requirement is to keep the roads clear no matter how heavy it snows or rains.
Another example: after receiving the weather forecast from the meteorological department, increase the reserves of coal and vegetables to ensure the normal basic living needs of the people;
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A foreign embassy in China has a very detailed crisis plan: If China society gets out of control, what will the embassy staff do? Ask every employee what they must bring, what they can't bring, when and where to meet, and when and where to meet if they miss this opportunity. The program was distributed not only to embassy staff, but also to all relevant departments and personnel.
Imagine: If unexpected emergencies really happen, the embassy staff will definitely not make a mess, because they already have a plan, know what to do and just do it step by step.
Will this happen? It may never happen, but from the perspective of relevant state departments, as long as possible, there must be a plan.
Why can't we do this in China?
A few days ago, someone posted a post on the Internet with the title: What if war and heavy snow come together?
Of course, for power transmission and transformation facilities, it can only improve the ability to resist risks. For example: improve the wind and compression resistance of iron towers, improve the tensile strength of transmission cables and so on.
Many people upstairs have come up with many good ideas, which is very good.
However, some ideas may not be feasible in practice, such as coating transmission cables, which will seriously reduce the transmission capacity of transmission cables (existing transmission cables are bare wires). Some people say that the use of flamethrowers, personally feel that the idea is bold, the actual operability is not strong.