Hope it’s not too harsh for you guys
The snowblower froze up (specifically the mechanism that turns the spout) so I had to drag it into the house to warm it up. The plug cap on my headbolt heater also froze solid. I couldn’t bring the car into the house to warm it up because, among other things, I already had the snowblower in there. I spent 20 minutes with a heat gun prying it off instead.
Aside from that it was a normal weekend.
I’m imagining your SO entering the living room full of usually outside stuff and you muttering “Don’t even ask.”
I actually went and talked to her before I started because I knew that was how it’d end up going.
Absolutely right. Open communication is the key to any new roommate situation, even if it’s only between an man, his wife, the couch and the poor freezing snowblower.
I had to pry my car door open yesterday because it was frozen shut. I also couldn’t open my window when I went through the drive up pharmacy.
the drive up pharmacy.
I think I heard an eagle scream outside when I read that assembly of words 🇺🇸
It actually makes sense, sick people aren’t going into the store and getting everyone else sick. Elderly people also don’t have to walk and risk slipping on the ice.
Yeah, still, the “never get out of your car for anything”-thing is very… associated with a certain country in the nothern hemisphere.
Those problems you mention have been solved for us, in our rural area of the country: The pharmacies offer a delivery service. Classic job for students, two rounds a day.
We were just finally coming out of the cold snap, it warmed back up to around -20C, and my power steering line went -_-
This temp breaks a lot of cars, which sucks. My own car always breaks something in the yearly cold snap. This year it’s the block heater.
I stopped walking to work, -50c is too cold for that.
And I didn’t shovel the sidewalk of my whole block, just the part in front of my house.
Holy crap, that’s cold!
I am counting the windchill factor, it’s really only like -40c.
The Canadian prairies
I live in Minnesota, my parents live in Florida, and I have a friend who used to live in SK. I could make fun of my parents for what they thought was cold; he could make fun of me for what I thought was cold. Don’t know how you do it.
In Vancouver we don’t know that kind of cold. Wet and damp cold yes, but it’s been a unusually warmer winter. Low 50s even for Xmas and not at much rain and hardly any snow for local mountains.
Now it’s down to low 10s F it’s bloody super cold for us. With the wind chill it has been down to -10F. Not breaking your car quite yet but you don’t want to be out and about for too long without one. Usually the couple of days we get snow here it’s chaos and the major routes are a mess. It was just as bad the one day we did get some during the cold snap and it wasn’t even the wet and heavy stuff we normally get.
I usually go for short walks daily but not during these days - 10F days. We are warming up to near 32F for highs and I’m thinking this is probably nice BBQ weather for Edmonton now.
It seems all relative. I was down in Arizona this past winter. It was one of the coolest ones they had in Yuma and the day time temperatures were reaching high 60s to low 70s during the day with a lot of sun. I thought I was in heaven for winter. The locals were so disappointed.
Mind you at one point it was snowing in California, northern AZ, Phoenix, Tuscan, NM, and Texas while I was in a sun pocket so they may have had something to complain about but I would still take their dry and warm during the day over my normal wet and soggy days.
My son rode his bike across Saskatoon for work during this cold. Didn’t even slow him down. Not sure if he’s stupid, crazy, or brave.
If something bad happens, you just die. We learned from Regina that people won’t stop and help.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/regina-man-security-footage-cold-death-1.7081495
That’s mad dude, at this temp people won’t stop to help…hell…most people won’t stop to help in nice weather.
Just remind him to be carefull of the stupid drivers in our city.
Took two personal days because I can’t get out of my driveway and it’s not safe to stay out to shovel until Wednesday (when the temps and windchill will finally be above negative). Haven’t been out of the house since Thursday, but I have plenty of food, internet, and things to do.
it’s not safe to stay out to shovel until Wednesday (when the temps and windchill will finally be above negative)
i grew up in michigan and, yeah i shoveled snow in negative temps when i was 12… it’s safe IF you bundle up properly.
some long johns, or even sweat pants, two pair of jeans… boots… (you can put breadbags over your socks if they leak or you don’t have boots…
tons of layers of shirts, a ski mask, and gloves…
no problem… you want the outermost layer to be waterproof/windproof…
trench coats are actually quite functional and not just for murderers hiding guns…
and the more you shovel, the more you warm up…
of course, if the wind is real bad it gets kinda pointless, but you can kinda throw the snow with the wind and it’ll fly away… (unless there’s not one prevailing direction of wind)
ummm… road salt is pretty important… sand helps too…
also the layers help when you fall down on the ice…
Outdoor temperatures have been between -10C and -29C for the last few weeks, I don’t think it’s going to get really cold here this year.
Cold doesn’t really bother me, I don’t normally even wear a jacket if it’s warmer than -20C. Woollen sweater and a warm vest will do just fine.
It’s -5°F over here in Chicago, supposed to hit a high of 2°F later today. Wife and I are working from home, so we’re both ok. We care for a feral cat that spends the winter months in a wooden cat house with a bed and plug-in heating pad that my wife installed on the back deck a few years ago. I’m always worried about that cat, she’s getting older and isn’t as spry as she used to be.
In about six, seven months it’s gonna be 100° warmer, which is wild to me.
For better or worse at least we all know how to deal with the weather. The trains don’t care what temperature it is and life goes on. I feel for the areas that aren’t equipped to deal with temps below 30.
Pretty good! -20 here. We made crock pot dumping soup, my new snow boots and gloves arrived, and I am gonna bake coffee cake later to warm up the house.
Too harsh?! It’s lovely! -20 where I’m at and it’s awesome 😎
And now I am become slug: I’m goopy, slow, and melting. (Someone poured salt on me.)
I’m in South America, facing the exact opposite - this summer has been extremely harsh, often going past 30°C in a rather wet city. To make things worse, a certain four-legged arsehole doesn’t get that humans don’t want to cuddle when it’s too hot, so she keeps jumping on my lap:
(She’s an arsehole. Cute, but an arsehole.)It’s unusual for us in Salt lake NOT be having extreme cold right now in January - it’s unusually warm this year. Mid-40s, rain but not snow. Some years we’ve been as low as minus 6 or minus 8 in January.
The Sundance Film Festival is going on in Park City, Utah, this weekend so I wonder how they are faring up there in the canyon. It’s warmer here in the valley, but there’s lot of great fluffy new snow up there for skiers to enjoy. This has been an odd winter, because we didn’t get ANY snow in December to speak of.
