I have a New Found Respect...

[gascort]

For Canadians. Holy Scheight it's cold outside!!!!
(-19C here the past 2 mornings)

And it's colder where many of you guys live, for weeks on end, right???

I know your country is nice, clean, and friendly, but I don't know if it's worth it living in the bitter cold all winter!!!

I love the Midwest and am too poor/cheap for it, but I'm really thinking Southern CA would be nice right now.

[Frank Lee]

Respect?!? I think we need our heads examined for putting up with this ****.

[MazdaMatt]

-25 (Celcius) this morning... so cold that my heater core froze up and i spent 30 minutes driving to work with no heat in the car! I think Frank's right... i'm stupid for not moving to mexico... so are the other 30million of us. Mom was on the phone to a customer in Winnipeg last week, it was -51... yeah, that's right... MINUS FIFTY ONE CELCIUS!!!!

[metroschultz]

Here at the Beach in Ole Virginny,
The big headlines are the cold temperatures now.
You guys are used to the cold and have learned how to deal with it and be productive through the winter.
Here people are NOT prepared and the Weathermen are telling us how to keep from freezing our b@ll$ off.
I grew up in the north, not as close to the pole as some of you, and learned how to deal and get by.
I lived in northern Germany for several years, (Bremerhaven, on the North Sea. across from Copenhagen), and had a great time while I lived there.
Here the people all came from Florida or So Cal and they are dead in winter when the temp drops below 32*F.
Today's high 20*f
Tomorrows high 25*F
I will be at the boneyard all alone.
BWAAhahaha

[tasdrouille]

Yup, it's pretty cold now and then up here. It's not the same all throughout Canada though. BC gets it easy, the East is not too bad if you live close to the water, but you get a lot of snow. The prairies are probably the coldest place on earth where a significant population live. Some towns in northern Saskatchewan have colder winter averages than Antartica (no jokes!)

This morning, it was -31 C actual thermometer temp here. I hate it when it's that cold. I'd take 3 feet of snow over a -30 C any day. Fortunately, there's just a handful of -30 C days per year around here. Usually it's a much more comfortable -10 -15 C.

[jamesqf]

I'd be perfectly happy if you'd ship about 20 degrees (F) of that cold, plus the accompanying snow, out to the west. Here in northern Nevada, temperatures have been hitting the 60s for the last few weeks. The Sierra snowpack's only about half the historic average, and melting fast. What snow there is has turned to unskiable ice & slush.

[MetroMPG]

Today is the first "real" cold day we've had since I came to the coast. -18C / 0F. (The historic average daily high for January around here is right on the freezing mark.) I heard my neighbour yell "Oh lord it's cold!" to nobody in particular when she walked out her door to go to work this morning.

But it's still far warmer than back in Ontario at the moment. Same temps you're experiencing, Tas.

The cold just makes you savour the other half (or 2/3 depending on where you live) of the year that much more.

Have we had a January thaw yet?

[MetroMPG]

Originally Posted by gascort

I'm really thinking Southern CA would be nice right now.

I was going to wait until next fall to start a thread on the topic, but...

Feel like nominating any nice, small, affordable & friendly towns in the US south?

[SVOboy]

-26C in NH this morning,

[MazdaMatt]

I love watching american news from places that sometimes get "cold" when there has been an ice storm... silly people sliding their cars sideways down hills of ice into piles of other cars... hopelessly spinning out at full speeds on the highways... its funny how absolutely unprepared some people are for a little traction loss.