2018-01-04 at 9:40 PM UTC
Vizier
Tuskegee Airman
[spic of the devil]
Holy shit. Do your pipes and toilet freeze? Does your car break down? Is your gas bill like a million dollars?
2018-01-04 at 9:47 PM UTC
Vizier
Tuskegee Airman
[spic of the devil]
Being a vagrant in your city must be like some hardcore Survivorman shit.
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2018-01-04 at 9:50 PM UTC
Originally posted by -SpectraL
Everyone around here has to deal with that all the time. I insulate all my pipes by wrapping and taping old blankets, old towels, etc., around them. Many vehicles here won't start in the morning, because their engine blocks are frozen solid. We get quite a few people discovered in the mornings frozen stiff and stuck to fences and walls and lampposts, too. Heating is super expensive, especially electric heaters.
keep your engine running and pipe the exhaust gases into youur house for heating.
problem solved, cheap.
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2018-01-04 at 9:51 PM UTC
Vizier
Tuskegee Airman
[spic of the devil]
I actually applied to a job with a mining company in Nunavut some months ago. I didn't get a call back, but I can't imagine dealing with such a horrible weather. The pay is probably really good though.
2018-01-04 at 9:56 PM UTC
-SpectraL
coward
[the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]
The temperature I have to deal with is colder than the surface of Mars. It's like a blanket of dry, biting, electrified cold, where it feels almost "heavy" on your body, strange as that sounds. Imagine standing in the ice box of your refrigerator, X 2. It goes right through all your clothing no problem at all, even if you wear 3 or 4 layers. Your fingers and toes and face are the first things that start solidifying, if you expose them for more than a few minutes. One of my relatives, a native Indian who lives in the Northwest Territories, wears a t-shirt in my weather. He says it's "nice". Where he's from, it regularly goes down to -70. His skin is a good inch think, almost like leather.
2018-01-04 at 10:15 PM UTC
Originally posted by Vizier
Legally moving there would take years if not decades even if you married some hog for a green card. Also, I don't exactly like a large part of american culture and people, especially the whole societal divide and identity politics in that country.
None of those issues really manifest much IRL. It is chill for the most part. Start PMing Hydro, she will marry you for sure.
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2018-01-04 at 10:17 PM UTC
-SpectraL
coward
[the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]
Benny's right about the exhaust poison thing. Around here, idiots forget that the high winds can easily blow snow up to a person's waist, so what happens is they don't clear the snow away from the exhaust pipes on their home, so the pipes get blocked with ice and snow and they all die inside from carbon monoxide poisoning overnight. Some idiot just killed himself and his whole family the other day by forgetting to clear the exhaust pipes on the family home.
