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02 Jun 2024 15:41

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Have you ever lived in an extreme climate place?

We all want to live in a moderate climate - neither too hot nor too cold. But there are places on Earth where climate is too cold or too hot. It becomes difficult to survive in such places but using the modern gadgets we can manage even in such places. The cost of living would also be higher in such places as the energy bill will shoot up.
Have you ever lived in a place even for a small period where such a climate is there? What is your experience? How the local people manage to live there throughout the year? Please share your experiences or views about this.

#779777

02 Jun 2024 16:02

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I think it was in 2002. I visited a European country where the daytime temperature was less than 4 degrees centigrade. I was there on a business trip. I and My colleague were there for 4 days. During day time also the Sun is not visible. Water is solidified and we drink it after melting it. Walked on ice. It was very difficult to walk and we had to walk very slowly and carefully. We visited a manufacturing unit there and all the shop floors were provided with heaters. There the day ends very fast. In the hotel, all the rooms are provided with heaters like ACs in our area.
We interacted with 2 or 3 manufacturing industries there and we had meetings with the concerned in their offices. Roads are very spacious but not crowded anywhere during the daytime also. We took all the required clothings to protect ourselves from that cold weather. I was not feeling like eating and I managed with bread and jam, fruits and vegetables.

drrao
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#779784

02 Jun 2024 22:51

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When I was in my school my father was posted in a hill town in Uttarakhand and we had severe winter there with occasional snowfall.
The main problem at that time was to keep the rooms and living place warm by burning coal in special stoves. Electric heaters were not there because we did not have the power electric line and electric power was only available for lighting.
Burning coal in stoves gave some heat in the rooms but we could not close the windows due to fear of gas pollution created by coal burning.
Anyway, 3 months in the year that is December, January, and February were like that and we had to wear woolens and take care and avoid going out in cold.
We had special quilts made of high quality woolens that we used to cover ourselves in the night.

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#779793

03 Jun 2024 13:45

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After doing my UG course I had to go to a hilly town for undertaking my PG. In that town we had snowfall during winters.
I remember it was the month of January and there was good amount of snowfall in the night and as I was living in a rented room quite high on the hills. It was an isolated location and there were no neighbours around as everyone left for planes during winters.
So on that morning I found heaps of snow outside and it was severe cold and over and above that all the stairs going down to the road were completely covered with snow and it was impossible to step down on the stairs.
I had little ration left in my room and only a kerosene stove having half tank of kerosene and I knew that I could not go down to the market for anything at least during next 2-3 days till the snow melts. The worry was that if snowfall again happened I did not have anything to eat. It so happened that on next night snowfall again happened and I was stuck at the room for next 5-6 days surviving on a few potatoes I had.
It was a bad experience. I faced the severe weather during that phase. I felt like a released prisoner next week when the weather cleared and I rushed to market to buy essentials.

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#779903

06 Jun 2024 17:09

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In 2013 I went to Beas in odd month with my wife and her sister without any plan. We went there via Chandigarh and reached Beas by 7.00 pm. We felt light chillness as we reach outer Beas and after finishing our dinner there we reach Dera by 8.00 pm. After getting our accommodation, my wife immediately went to Bath room for washing her legs and hands. As we never went there in the winter, she immediately got her legs and hands stiff as high cold water fall on them. She started to cry. After making her to sit calm, I immediately went inside the bathroom and made water heater on. Then I asked her to show her hands and legs in the hot water and she got relief. Next day morning also we felt high chillness and after the Satsang over, I went to Amritsar with my co brother and bought some sweaters, socks, hand gloves for them to manage the rest three days therein.

Have you ever lived in an extreme climate place?

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