Quoted from colleen, posted August 24, 2004, 6:33pm at here
lol you're silly.
Our summers are really really hot and our winters are really really cold. You should have seen me in January when it was -40 degrees. I had to walk to the bus stop in my winter coat, hat, two pairs of gloves and a scarf wrapped around my face. I was warm everywhere but my legs because I was wearing dress pants for work. By the time I got to work my legs were so numb with the cold I couldn't feel them and I thought my pants had fallen down. I actually had to stop and look down to make sure they were still on me haha.
I can only ask...why would anyone subject themselves to that?
I remember my first 17 years in the Chicago area and now I have spent twice as many years in a temperate climate I would NEVER go live there again, and I love my old hometown. The cold and humidity were just life-altering.
Yet people stay and thrive. I'm sure Canada has so many other nice things it's just a trade-off but it would be awfully hard for me to stay in an area like that (I remember when the girl's would wear skirts to school, walking blocks in thigh high snow drifts to get to the bus stop. I never figured out if females were braver than me or just sillier)...
Quoted from misterchaz, posted August 24, 2004, 7:35pm at here
I can only ask...why would anyone subject themselves to that?
I remember my first 17 years in the Chicago area and now I have spent twice as many years in a temperate climate I would NEVER go live there again, and I love my old hometown. The cold and humidity were just life-altering.
Yet people stay and thrive. I'm sure Canada has so many other nice things it's just a trade-off but it would be awfully hard for me to stay in an area like that (I remember when the girl's would wear skirts to school, walking blocks in thigh high snow drifts to get to the bus stop. I never figured out if females were braver than me or just sillier)...
I used to ask my parents every winter why they chose to move here from Ireland. For the most part you get used to the different temperatures. I had never experienced -40 degrees before though. Our winters are usually -20 degrees.
Quoted from colleen, posted August 24, 2004, 6:33pm at here
lol you're silly.
Our summers are really really hot and our winters are really really cold. You should have seen me in January when it was -40 degrees. I had to walk to the bus stop in my winter coat, hat, two pairs of gloves and a scarf wrapped around my face. I was warm everywhere but my legs because I was wearing dress pants for work. By the time I got to work my legs were so numb with the cold I couldn't feel them and I thought my pants had fallen down. I actually had to stop and look down to make sure they were still on me haha.
I have been out in -30 degrees Celsius. I don't know if I could take much colder. One time when I was jogging my lungs started to freeze in that cold of air! I wear pants over pants and it always keeps me warm. Does it ever get so cold there, that they advise just not going out?
Quoted from Val, posted August 25, 2004, 5:16pm at here
I have been out in -30 degrees Celsius. I don't know if I could take much colder. One time when I was jogging my lungs started to freeze in that cold of air! I wear pants over pants and it always keeps me warm. Does it ever get so cold there, that they advise just not going out?
They will tell you not to go out unless you need to. Well, you have to leave the house to go to work. They just tell you to bundle up because your skin will be frostbitten within a minute if it's not covered. I hate the cold but what I hate more is when the roads are slippery. I hate driving on icy roads.
Quoted from colleen, posted August 25, 2004, 7:21pm at here
They will tell you not to go out unless you need to. Well, you have to leave the house to go to work. They just tell you to bundle up because your skin will be frostbitten within a minute if it's not covered. I hate the cold but what I hate more is when the roads are slippery. I hate driving on icy roads.
Yeah, like when your car ice-skates through the intersection with no brakes! I don't know if they salt up there but sometimes around 0 degrees (F) here, salt doesn't melt the ice and hills are bad news!
Quoted from Val, posted August 26, 2004, 8:48pm at here
Yeah, like when your car ice-skates through the intersection with no brakes! I don't know if they salt up there but sometimes around 0 degrees (F) here, salt doesn't melt the ice and hills are bad news!
The city is pretty good at clearing the main roads here. They don't bother doing the residential streets though. So I slide out of the parking lot of the complex I live in and the snow is so high you can feel it scraping along the bottom of the car.
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