If your furnace breaks down it would take several days to a week for the temps to drop enough to freeze your pipes. Unless your place is really poorly insulated. The simplest thing when furnace breaks down is to just turn water off at the main if worried about that and bleed the lines=no breaking pipes ever.
sure, but frostbite can hit someone within minutes, heat exhaustion takes longer (in general)
This is the thing. Winter is no danger if you provision/prepare for it. There is no preparation available for your car breaking down in middle of desert at +40C conditions.
it's one threat, whether or not it happens isn't the point...you don't have to worry about that in the summer
I'd lime New Zealand more now. haha. Not so much a month ago. Never been there and the flight time and expense is a lot but its an interesting place from the looks of it. Australia doesn't appeal to me at all. Its interesting how different the climates are from one to the other.My guess is that you'd like New Zealand... especially the South Island. Temps are moderate in summer and not too cold in winter... but they still get 4 seasons and you can ski in winter and then drive to a beach same day an hour or 2 away. Hiking/camping/outdoor activities etc are tremendous there and basically zero dangerous animals... not even a bear in the woods to worry about.
Good health care... high safety level... English speaking. Politics is sensible unlike USA. Downside is cost of living is still pretty high as it's an island nation that depends on imports so costs are as high or higher than Canada.
It's big enough of a country though that you can find areas away from the coasts so flooding isn't going to be as big an issue inland.
I kind of rule it out for that high cost of living and I want even warmer temperatures year round... but I absolutely know for many it would be pretty much paradise there.
It takes around a few minutes to warm up in a proper -25 rated sleeping bag one of which I always have in the car. Even quicker if one has a snuggly partner.
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sure, if the end of the world is upon us, I'll be sure to head for the cold climates where there's plenty of snow availableI'd lime New Zealand more now. haha. Not so much a month ago. Never been there and the flight time and expense is a lot but its an interesting place from the looks of it. Australia doesn't appeal to me at all. Its interesting how different the climates are from one to the other.
It takes around a few minutes to warm up in a proper -25 rated sleeping bag one of which I always have in the car. Even quicker if one has a snuggly partner.
In anycase its seldom -30 here, and when it is not usually for long. Most winters you get one or two days that are that cold. In many places in arizona for instance it hits =40C for months and doesn't relent.
Also keeping in mind most places that have hotter summers, its not +30, its +40, and commonly.
The test of climate is whether you can survive nomadically in any specific region. Whether people were able to survive such places nomadically. To wit people didn't ever live in deserts, they crossed them, at great peril, to get to habitable places. People didn't live in deserts before AC. They did live on the prairies, they even lived in the arctic, because you could, and could survive. That isn't opinion, its fact.
Picture it like this. If theres a catastrophe you can survive a winter climate that has access to water. You could survive for years or endlessly if properly prepared. without power, energy, running tap water you would die in a housing development in arizona in days or weeks. With literally no chance of survival.
brownouts and power failures in many parts of the world are emergency situations.
ps it doesn't much matter if your car starts and the roads are melting and are too hot to even walk on. Yeah, heat is a hell of a problem, pun intended.
India's Deadly Heatwave Melting Roads
A devastating heatwave has left more than 1,100 people dead over the past month in India, and photos also show the toll on the country's infrastructure.
People are coming back. Theres net migration from Vancouver mainland to Alberta citties now because lower mainland is unaffordable, people sick of grey sky and not seeing the sun for months, and sick of pineapple express storm systems and Chilliwack flooding. Sick of corridors like Coquihalla and Fraser highway that are notorious for closures and worse.sure, if the end of the world is upon us, I'll be sure to head for the cold climates where there's plenty of snow available
in the meantime, I'd rather not start my car in freezing cold temps, and drive on dangerous icy roads
I love Alberta in the summer...the long nights, the good temperatures...but from November to March, it's a tough place to be...and I enjoy skating and skiing as often as I can
I just wish the average winter temperature was like 5 degrees warmer
I mean, look at how many Canadian ex-pats move to places like Arizona and never come back...I wonder why
I wish she would have taken her Canadian friend with her too.
How many times can I love a post. They're bookends. They should be married or joined at the hip or something. You get me bro! heh
I'd like New Zealand more now. haha. Not so much a month ago. Never been there and the flight time and expense is a lot but its an interesting place from the looks of it. Australia doesn't appeal to me at all. Its interesting how different the climates are from one to the other.My guess is that you'd like New Zealand... especially the South Island. Temps are moderate in summer and not too cold in winter... but they still get 4 seasons and you can ski in winter and then drive to a beach same day an hour or 2 away. Hiking/camping/outdoor activities etc are tremendous there and basically zero dangerous animals... not even a bear in the woods to worry about.
Good health care... high safety level... English speaking. Politics is sensible unlike USA. Downside is cost of living is still pretty high as it's an island nation that depends on imports so costs are as high or higher than Canada.
It's big enough of a country though that you can find areas away from the coasts so flooding isn't going to be as big an issue inland.
I kind of rule it out for that high cost of living and I want even warmer temperatures year round
Can't handle the cold like a true Canadian would?sure, if the end of the world is upon us, I'll be sure to head for the cold climates where there's plenty of snow available
in the meantime, I'd rather not start my car in freezing cold temps, and drive on dangerous icy roads
I love Alberta in the summer...the long nights, the good temperatures...but from November to March, it's a tough place to be...and I enjoy skating and skiing as often as I can
I just wish the average winter temperature was like 5 degrees warmer
I mean, look at how many Canadian ex-pats move to places like Arizona and never come back...I wonder why
oh I handle it, and make the best of it....would rather not have to deal with -20 and below thoughCan't handle the cold like a true Canadian would?
I know a ton of people who go down there. They all come back in March/April.
I can't stand desert conditions. Or the organisms that live there. Or the lack of water and arable land.
Being in the insurance industry, I see it from time to time. The reason the pipes freeze, is that people go on holidays and the furnace craps out. They don't have anyone checking their place, and when they return after weeks/months, there is a bit of a mess to say the least. So my insurance broker advice to all of you, is when you're away for an extended period, have someone check your place once in a while (maybe every week or so) just to make sure they don't see their breath when they walk in your door.
Always do this with the neighbors. We check houses for each other, and we do it every two days. On my actual policy there was a disclaimer that houses should be checked minimum of every 48-72hrs. Not sure how universal that expectation is.
I can't stand desert conditions. Or the organisms that live there. Or the lack of water and arable land.
Only thing I wish with Edmonton is it was closer to mountains but then you get all the weather and hardships of being too close to mountain weather. Edson might be around the perfect location, but its Edson, lol. Canmore and Hinton just too close to the mountains to live imo. Too much snow, excessive storms, risks of flooding etc. Plus the mountain cold when storms do hit anytime of the year.
New Zealand sure looks beautiful. I can't put my finger on it entirely but I think it would be odd living in the Southern Hemisphere. That said I've never been south of the Equator so nothing to base it on. Geographically New Zealand is a fascinating place as it straddles different climates along its length. Gets too complex for here but due to rotation of earth, axis and stuff Antarctica of course is much larger and colder than the Arctic and even at the southernmost latitude of NZ it impacts the climate there. Even though thats 45degrees south latitude. Whereas 45N wouldn't be that cold. I'm sure somebody could explain it better.
Trouble with NZ of course is that so much of the habitable and more arable areas are very low sea level and very impacted by any sea level change.
NZ unfortunately is in a lot of peril and pretty much a disaster where their cities are located.
Auckland floods: More heavy rain ahead for New Zealand's largest city
Authorities have issued severe weather warnings for New Zealand's largest city and surrounding towns.www.bbc.com
