Unmute !
a strong contender for 2021 post of the year
I’ve been cackling since halfway through that🤣
As -10F hits area’s of the US who’ve never seen such temperatures in living memory, I wanted to give some tips from a Minnesotan who’s lived with these temps as a part of my life for 37 years.
1) Don’t Get Cocky. People used to these temps may laugh at our southern neighbors freaking out about the cold because yes, some parts of the US get such temps regularly every year. These people are being ignorant assholes. Our houses are mandated to have insulation that few of your homes will have. We pretty much all have huge puffy coats, and have well established winter weather gear drives for homeless and poor folks every year. We have expensive, well equipped infrastructure for cope with these temps and with large amounts of snow. You don’t. When it comes down to it, Minnesotans know to respect the cold temps- it’s just that a lot of the ways that do it are so commonplace as to be invisible to those who already have these habits.
2) Don’t go out wet. Dry your hair or stay inside. You will loose a lot of heat if you’re wet. Same for sweat, and wet diapers. And clothes with snow on them are now WET CLOTHES. Change into dry clothes as soon as possible.
3) If you have a shitty car battery or a car that sometimes struggles to start, then try not to use it. You’re unlikely to get the kind of temps where it’s impossible to start an engine (I’ve only experienced those temps a few times. Once my eyelashes froze shut and I almost froze to death in my own back yard. Don’t be like young me. Respect the cold.) If your car doesn’t start, you could be stranded somewhere, and realistically your area’s emergency services may be pretty overrun.
4) Very cold air doesn’t hold moisture well. Plan for extra hydration for people, pets, and plants. Even if your staying in- most home heaters pull cold air from outside, then dry it out even MORE in the process of heating it. Dehydration is a thing. Even if your home’s heater has a humidifier attached to it (if you’re not sure, then it probably doesn’t.) it’s a good idea to drink extra water. Right now I have a few pots of water just left out by heaters to evaporate as much as possible. My mom used to just heat huge camping pots on the stove all day in cold temps. Remember, dry nasal passages really muck up your bodies ability to fight airborne illness. This is not a great time for that.
5) Help out homeless folks in your area in any way you can. These temps can and do kill. And since we have more evictions than any society can conscionably defend this year, we have high numbers of homeless people. Which means area supports for unhoused folks are often underfunded and over-taxed.
6) Let your faucets drip. I know nobody likes to waste water but if your pipes freeze they will literally explode. Your home will flood. My mother’s kitchen got completely destroyed and it traumatized my childhood dog. Justa bit of moving warm water will safeguard you from that.
7) Do. Not. Burn. Propane. Indoors.
8) Plan for potential power outages. Ice on the lines can cause this and again, your infrastructure isn’t prepped for this. Unplug anything in your home you’re not using to do your part to help prevent rolling blackouts.
9) Driving on ice is a SKILL. Your roads may be filled with people who do not have that skill. Please please, stay off the roads if you can- even if you have this skill these roads will not be prepped and will, again, be full of people who don’t know how to do this because it just hasn’t come up that much in their life.
Stay safe and stay kind, folks!
I will also add: as someone with poor circulation, fingerless gloves are a lifesaver when doing computer work. They’re not always easy to find, but if you can find one of those pairs of cheap, thin, one-size-fits-all gloves (they usually just cost a dollar or two) and cut off the tips of the fingers, it’ll work great. They won’t look pretty, and won’t hold up for long, but they’ve saved me a lot of pain.
when you come in from the cold, drink something hot with sugar and fat in it (like hot chocolate)
not freezing burns a lot of calories and a hot drink will help you warm up quicker
how come phineas is always like “i know what we’re going to do today” maybe ferb had an idea you ass
Listen, Phineas is the ADHD idea guy and Ferb is the autistic engineer who figures out how to make it happen, and them’s just the facts. If Ferb wanted to do something else, he’d just…do it.
Plus Phineas does let Ferb decide the idea of the day if he wants (seriously go watch the Max Modem episode if you believe Phineas doesn’t). And more often than not, they’re on the same wavelength with Phineas saying that they’re thinking the same thing, Ferb silently prompting an idea, or even Ferb pulling out plans as soon as Phineas has an idea
Will not accept this Phineas slander
Literally the first dialog from the whole show is Phineas asking “Ferb what you want to do today?”
How come semi trucks in Europe look like “toot toot :)” and in North America they look like “HONK HOOOOOOOONK >:|”
“Henlo I am big twuck pwease give me wots of woom tank u :)”
“I WILL FUCKING PANCAKE YOUR CUCK ASS”
@trainwreckgenerator why did you hide these in the tags
This suggests that Maximum Overdrive was Jurassic Park for motor vehicles.
I’m sorry, but that is misleading as hell. American and European trucks are bred for different purposes.
American trucks are bred for long hauls on largely straight roads. They can go for hours without a break. A European truck needs more breaks and a lighter load, and they would indeed take great internal damage if they tried to keep up with the Longsnout.
The European Shortsnout is not bred for looks, but for agility! They navigate the windy roads of Europe in a way that would be way too risky for the powerful, but more clumsy American truck. It is true that the European overheats faster at high speeds, that is the very reason that breaks every 4,5 hours are mandatory for both the truck and the handler and a day of driving can never be longer then 9 hours.
So, all in all, appreciate all of our trucks and our shared history, and be the responsible owner that gets the right breed for the right job.
European trucks have to navigate streets like this:
The area in this map is less than 10 square kilometers. And some of those streets are not broad enough for two cars to drive next to each other unless nobody parks there. Bonus points for streets made of cobble stone.
Try to navigate those with an American truck. I dare you.
Submerging an Italian in olive oil like you would an Evangelion pilot in LCL so they can operate at maximum psychological capacity
this is what my bellisima mama did to me when i was but a six year old little bambine and now im so unbelievably fucked up
yeah ill reblog that
