General Chat

Thank you Caroline sounds as though people who.need help get it as you say some don't want it or to proud shame as there are so many deaths due to extreme weather conditions & unfortunately muggings assaults.Take Care Barbara

Barbara...the homeless in these situations extra buildings are opened including Government buildings to shelter them during the day and night; not always beds but warmth and food etc available. They can be either driven or given tickets for buses etc to get to shelters. If they refuse to go extra sleeping bags and clothes are given to anyone found and food is taken around. Shelters relax restrictions eg drink and drugs as much as possible. Some will still refuse help though sadly. The shelters were already over crowded before the cold hit.

You are absolutely right Sylvia.

We have family in the Midwest and they are really suffering.

Yes, they are heating the rails on the E-trains to keep them running. Some of the firms have closed for a few days, so that the workers do not have to venture out.

Some of the yellow school buses are shuttling people with frostbite to the Emergency Rooms. Not very clever at all is it?

We moan about snow over here, but by golly, that is diabolical over there.

I told the inlaws to forget about the bills for the heating, just KEEP WARM.

Keep warm alright for us here 4ins snow minus 6 last night
Very extreme cold for Canada & parts of America how do the homeless cope do they get help when it's so cold .here there are more sleeping rough than ever .what is the solution Barbara

Hope our friends coping with this are OK. Is this a bit unusual even for that area? Hope you stay warm anyway Sylvia. It is very cold here (for us), so we are staying in today. However it is not so bad that if we had to go out it would be a problem. We just choose to stay in.

Sylvia fancy a house swap for a few days?? :-D :-D
Feels like minus 36 so not as bad as some....this is when I don't care what I look like big warm clothes and boots and a massive wool scarf over the face....

Whilst I prefer the cold to the heat, I have no wish to experience those type of extreme cold temperatures :-0

Stay safe to all those affected

It must be horrific for the people in the worst parts, I am glad you are not in it.

It was only -5 here last night, tropical in comparison

We currently have a Polar Vortex covering much of Canada and down in part of eastern US.

Temperatures are getting down to -35C and as low as -50C, before the wind chill factor is added in.

However, I never heard of this being done in Canada .................. Chicago is setting fire to its train tracks to stop them freezing so they can keep the trains running

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/30/us/chicago-train-tracks-fire-trnd/index.html



PS ............... the west coast where I live is NOT in the Vortex, though it will be getting colder here at the weekend. Some of our members do live in the affected parts of Canada, so keep your fingers crossed for them!

We do have to remember that Ottawa is often the coldest capital in the world!