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Does everyone just stay home and things shut down when it's that cold?
For the most part, no, as that's just shit that happens every year in the Canadian prairies... Most parts of Canada have a few -30c days a year...
I'm pretty sure Ontario as a whole has more than a few -30 days. Same goes for (at least some of) Quebec. Manitoba is also cold to the same degree.
It's mainly just the west coast that's warmer. I'm not too sure about the east.
I agree with the op.
What's your definition of "few"? I used to work outside in the Ottawa region until 2020 (which is known to be a pretty fucking cold region) so I was exposed to it and -30c days (actual temperatures, not windchill) happened maybe 10 or 15 times a year... At night though, we would go down to -30c more often than that and it was a pain to work in...
I'm in and around that area now, I was taking into account wind-chill. Without wind-chill, I suppose -30 and below isn't nearly as common as I made it out to be.
Although in north-western Ontario, it at least used to reach that in February quite often. Definitely feels colder in the capital region with the dampness.
Working at night at -30 sounds terrible, sorry you had to endure that.
-30 is pretty normal in Alberta through the winter. It’ll even drop to -40 for a week or two a year. People mostly stay inside, and they plug in their cars so their engine blocks don’t freeze. Cities usually invest heavily in snow plows since they use them so much each year, and everyone has snow tires. There are lots of indoor places to walk around, and downtown Calgary even has a series of “Plus 15s” which are tunnels from one building to the next, about 15 feet off the ground.
And they complain that the west coast is too rainy to leave.
Only if it's snowing a lot. Otherwise you just bundle up and try not to go outside for more than a couple minutes.
When it's like -50c with the windchill, social things are pretty shutdown, but businesses don't close. School buses don't run, because they don't want to be held liable for kids freezing to death.
When you are risking death by going for a walk, you don't go out unless you need to.
No the kids have to go to the coal mines too great the burner.
Nah. Most things carry on, does this every winter