Oh that would be awful to have the furnace go… been seeing a lot of that on Facebook too unfortunately. Wow, so crazy to be almost on par with Mars. Just a few more days and it will feel like spring
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I’m trying to embrace the cold as best I canWow, you both aren't far behind Mars
, just wish a lot more snow would come with it. We really need it for our summer fires 
Lisa
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I know. Here, too. We did get some snow, finally. About 2”. A start, anyway!I’m trying to embrace the cold as best I can
We will enjoy a nice fire tonight and curl up under blankies (and the pooch
) on the couch. Popcorn and Netflix!
Lisa
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- Alberta, Canada
It’s getting a bit ridiculous now
That’s incredible. How do you manage? Do you just not go out??
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I am just sitting here with my mouth open. I'm trying to imagine what it would be like but I can't 
Jacqui-S
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It's not something I can compute either.
Lisa
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- Alberta, Canada
It’s hard to describe except to say it hurts to go outside. Just bitterly, bitterly cold. However, it was nice and sunny today, which helps. And no wind, which makes it so much worse. We did bundle up and take the pooch for a walk around the block. He was happy to have some sniffs and see something other than the back yard. Almost took longer to get all our gear on than to do the walk.
You do have to be very careful, though. These are life-threatening temps if you aren’t bundled up properly.
We were going to go to the city tomorrow to celebrate my birthday with our kids but we cancelled. If you break down on the highway things can get desperate pretty quickly. Not worth it. Hoping to go next weekend.
Enjoying a fire and a hockey game. Simba is asking to cuddle with dad.
Happy now
You do have to be very careful, though. These are life-threatening temps if you aren’t bundled up properly.
We were going to go to the city tomorrow to celebrate my birthday with our kids but we cancelled. If you break down on the highway things can get desperate pretty quickly. Not worth it. Hoping to go next weekend.
Enjoying a fire and a hockey game. Simba is asking to cuddle with dad.
Happy now
Lisa
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- Alberta, Canada
After all my assurances about power outages we just got this:
Wow Lisa - good luck, I hope you all avoid the outages.
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- Herefordshire, UK
Jacqui-S
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- Fife, Scotland
How scary @Lisa
Hope you had a lovely homely birthday
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This is a surprise to read....I thought wind would make things worse?
Hope you had a lovely homely birthday
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- Malvern Worcestershire
Oh dear, I was wondering when that would happen! Hopefully people listened and it helped and no power was lost
Happy birthday!! 
Sorry to hear you woke up to that @Parodius hopefully it’s back up and running asap!
Lisa
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All is well here, thanks everyone!
The power usage on the electrical grid dropped dramatically after the alert went on. It was ended a couple hours later - although I didn’t know that until I got up this morning. No rolling outages were necessary, thankfully! Neighbouring provinces can share power with us but they are also under historic cold temps right now so they don’t have a lot to spare. We can also share power with Montana. So there are lots of ways to keep the lights on and heat on but it does get challenging.
Still brutally cold this morning. We’re at -42C and a “feels-like “ temp of -52C. But it is supposed to slowly start warming today. Tomorrow we are forecasted -14C.
In my opinion, we need to have a better solution on the renewable side of things. Wind and solar don’t cut it as base load energy as they are unreliable. Alberta had the cleanest coal production in the world but the industry got shut down because of political ideology. Ok, fine. But don’t force us to freeze because of it! There are other options than wind/solar. I really hope we start looking at geothermal or small nuclear power reactors (new technology with no meltdown risk) or hydrogen. There’s lots of advances in these industries that are promising, thankfully! Rant over!
@Jacqui-S yes I didn’t word that properly. Wind does make the cold much worse. That’s what I was trying to say!
@Jelinga HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
Mine was the 11th but we were to celebrate today. I hope you have a wonderful day!! 
The power usage on the electrical grid dropped dramatically after the alert went on. It was ended a couple hours later - although I didn’t know that until I got up this morning. No rolling outages were necessary, thankfully! Neighbouring provinces can share power with us but they are also under historic cold temps right now so they don’t have a lot to spare. We can also share power with Montana. So there are lots of ways to keep the lights on and heat on but it does get challenging.
Still brutally cold this morning. We’re at -42C and a “feels-like “ temp of -52C. But it is supposed to slowly start warming today. Tomorrow we are forecasted -14C.
In my opinion, we need to have a better solution on the renewable side of things. Wind and solar don’t cut it as base load energy as they are unreliable. Alberta had the cleanest coal production in the world but the industry got shut down because of political ideology. Ok, fine. But don’t force us to freeze because of it! There are other options than wind/solar. I really hope we start looking at geothermal or small nuclear power reactors (new technology with no meltdown risk) or hydrogen. There’s lots of advances in these industries that are promising, thankfully! Rant over!
@Jacqui-S yes I didn’t word that properly. Wind does make the cold much worse. That’s what I was trying to say!
@Jelinga HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
Mine was the 11th but we were to celebrate today. I hope you have a wonderful day!!
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- Malvern Worcestershire
