Hi all,
Wayne Culberson's response to me in the last couple of days that he had
just come in from removing ice and snow from his driveway and had frost-
bitten cheeks as a result, really made me think.
OK, it is high summer here and short of putting my hand into the deep
freezer cabinet, it is difficult to imagine "cold". Just as Wayne probably
can't
imagine "hot" right now.
A good topic could be "Living among the cold" or "Coping with daily
(extreme) cold" or some such.
Of course "cold" is relative, and cold in Hong Kong would be different to cold
in Edmonton or New Brunswick.
Here we seldom get things below 10 degrees C (and certainly not since the
mid 1980s) so I find it difficult to comprehend how people cope with such
cold in their daily life, and what they do as a matter of course to make sure
they continue to survive. How do poor people cope in these conditions?. I've
heard of it being necessary to plug cars into sump heaters so that they will
start again. What else is needed? What do you do when you travel? How do
you ensure you survive if there's some mishap on the way? Do you avoid
travel in extreme cold?
Brian
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