Extremely cold weather, how do you cope ?

Question

i'm fom australia & we don't get anything like the extremely cold weather in the USA, canada or europe.

i see snowstorms , blizzards & icestorms on tv , & i wonder how do you cope ?

do you have to leave the heating on all day every day for months? otherwise how would the temperature inside ever be able to be livable ?doesn't this cost a fortune ? tell me other aspects of living in cold climate please.

Answer 1

I don't i live in sunny florida,but we have hurricanes.stay warm or move.

Answer 2

insulate you-self using paper....

Or

Wear dark coloured dress often.... dark coloured dress absorb heat..

Answer 3

Go to Key West like me next week!  Woo hoooo!!!!

Actually I live in So Cal where it's going to be 95F-100F(35-38C) this weekend, so not such an issue.  But that's exactly what I'd do for a break if I had to suffer the cold of Chicago or Minneapolis.  Going there would be 'medicinal' rather than being simply gratuitous and hedonistic!

Answer 4

I live in Wisconsin, where it's around 25 degrees in the winter.  You leave the heat on all day to 68ish, or maybe turn the thermostat down when your gone during the day to 55.  You just get use to putting on layers of clothing.  I work outside so thermal underware is a must to stay warm.  It really isn't as bad as you think.  Heating does cost some $$$, mine is around $250 a month.  You learn to drive in the snow, just slow down and leave earlier.  The worst part of snow is having to shovel the c**p.

Answer 5

lol. yes we get heating. In colder climates people's bodies adapt to the temperature by regulating burning energy, sweating amount etc. I'm currently in Oz on a long holiday and my body got used to he heat in about a week.

so to answer you're question. no it doesn't cost a fortune like you Oz guys with the AC :)  .  It definitely is livable. not much else is different except we probably wear a few more clothes

Answer 6

I live in kc mo, middle of the USA, our gas bill alone for this winter averaged about 140 a month and it comes on about ever half hour because of the old S****y windows, I put plastic on them but the draft is so strong it still leaks through.  

cold winter sucks, sometimes you cant unlock your doors(car) and even if you can you half to waste time melting and scraping

the windshield so you can see. any little scrape you get on you hand hurts 10 times worse in cold weather, I cut my hand regularly at my job and I only yell out in the winter time

just for a test put you hand in the ice box 10 min and scrape it on a nail

Answer 7

Heat is a lot cheaper than A/C. If you live in a seperate house, then yes it is a little expensive and most people set their thermostats in the high teens Celsius. In an apartment building, the volume to area ratio is high and this helps conserve heat.

Outdoors, you dress up warmly if you head out for more than a few minutes. Yes it is a pain in the butt. It's not the cold but the physical act of putting on all those stupid clothes, and feeling constricted and restricted that's uncomfortable. You get used to it but you never like it. But the good thing is, after feeling what minus 40 Celsius is like, 0 C feels balmy.

I've lived in both hot and cold climates and I'll tell you neither one is fun. But the cold is a little easier to deal with.