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Originally Posted by mousquet
^ How do you guys survive this? I just simply have no idea of the feeling of such temperatures to your flesh. It must hurt.
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On a cold day, the wind feels like someone has pointed a sand blaster at your face. I have had frostbite once, on my ears (which as some of you know, are very large). It feels like someone has gripped your flesh with hands covered in acid, and is slowly slicing it with a hot knife. (When you touch it, it feels like the surface of frozen but not quite solid milk, it's pretty scary to realize that that texture is your own skin.)
When it is too cold, we only go out if necessary. We stock up on groceries and household supplies when it isn't as cold, because even walking to the corner store at -30°C is dangerous. (I got frostnip, a redness and stinging sensation on the skin, after a 10 minute walk to the store earlier; it takes about two hours for the skin to warm up again.) I walk three blocks to work in the morning (when it's the coldest) and I barely make it.
All that said, unlike the US, our schools are open, buses are running, just two days after heavy snow we even have every street and sidewalk plowed. Very few events have been cancelled, most have been moved indoors if possible. The general mentality is, "we know it gets cold here, we prepare for it and just sit back and wait for it to pass".
In late January, our temperatures bottom out and it begins gradually warming up again.
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