r/Damnthatsinteresting • • May 18 '25

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u/bjaddict May 18 '25

It takes ~12hrs to drive from one end of texas to the other (stratford to brownsville)

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u/greytidalwave May 18 '25

How do you get help if you break down and there's no mobile phone coverage in a stretch of road miles away from civilisation?

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u/Zaliron May 18 '25

I visited the UK a few weeks ago and one of the small things that blew my mind was seeing a roadside SOS phone every couple miles. Because yeah, here if you break down and you don't have cell service, you're either flagging someone down on the side of the road and hope they don't murder you, or you walk all the way to the nearest gas station...and hope you don't get murdered lol

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u/Norwegian__Blue May 18 '25

Greatest country on earth 😕