Comment on Is history about to repeat itself?

• Fmstrat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The one thing they left out was school buses. Schools did let out early, but too late, so the traffic from the buses and parents melted the first layer of snow, with no plowing or salting. So it refroze into sheets of ice before people left work.

  Source: Me in traffic for 12 hours.

  Note: I now live in a place so cold that this week I hiked in -6F and had ice cream outside at 13F. 😃

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  • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    ice cream outside at 13F

    Why do people do this? It doesn’t look enjoyable.

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    • Fmstrat@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      When it’s cold all the time you adapt (not your body, your behaviors). For instance, when I am outside, I’m moving and working my body, and generally within 10-15 minutes I’m stripping off a layer or two already. People don’t typically stand around in this cold unless they have to.

      Even with the ice cream, it was after a ridge hike, and we stood outside for about 15 minutes. After that amount of time your core temp lowers and you start to feel the cold, so you either get moving or get inside. But when I arrived I would have been happy in a T-shirt.

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