When it’s like -50c with the windchill, social things are pretty shutdown, but businesses don’t close. School buses don’t run, because they don’t want to be held liable for kids freezing to death.
When you are risking death by going for a walk, you don’t go out unless you need to.
-30 is pretty normal in Alberta through the winter. It’ll even drop to -40 for a week or two a year. People mostly stay inside, and they plug in their cars so their engine blocks don’t freeze. Cities usually invest heavily in snow plows since they use them so much each year, and everyone has snow tires. There are lots of indoor places to walk around, and downtown Calgary even has a series of “Plus 15s” which are tunnels from one building to the next, about 15 feet off the ground.
And they complain that the west coast is too rainy to leave.
Had a couple of weeks in a row of this -30 to -40 Celsius. Flat tires and dead cars abound!
Does everyone just stay home and things shut down when it’s that cold?
Nah. Most things carry on, does this every winter
No the kids have to go to the coal mines too great the burner.
For the most part, no, as that’s just shit that happens every year in the Canadian prairies… Most parts of Canada have a few -30c days a year…
When it’s like -50c with the windchill, social things are pretty shutdown, but businesses don’t close. School buses don’t run, because they don’t want to be held liable for kids freezing to death.
When you are risking death by going for a walk, you don’t go out unless you need to.
-30 is pretty normal in Alberta through the winter. It’ll even drop to -40 for a week or two a year. People mostly stay inside, and they plug in their cars so their engine blocks don’t freeze. Cities usually invest heavily in snow plows since they use them so much each year, and everyone has snow tires. There are lots of indoor places to walk around, and downtown Calgary even has a series of “Plus 15s” which are tunnels from one building to the next, about 15 feet off the ground.
And they complain that the west coast is too rainy to leave.
Only if it’s snowing a lot. Otherwise you just bundle up and try not to go outside for more than a couple minutes.
Wow there’s kinda a lot of Edmontonians in this place.
Hello fellow Edmonton homie 😎
There’s dozens of us!
Possible even 50!