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Originally Posted by JimmyL
The heck with your cars, how do you live in temps that cold?????
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Sad footnote to that question... this happened about mile from me:
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/ottawa/Family+mourns+after+woman+dies+Aylmer+footpath/7883482/story.html
Context: a "depanneur" is the French term for an extended-hours convenience store. She essentially froze to death after collapsing on a footpath behind a brightly lit 24-hour gas station/convenience store, probably half a block from her house.
At those extreme cold temps, anyone with asthma or other lung disease can have an awful time. In my case, on those cold days I had to stop and rest when I walked into my office building (for some people the cold air does it, for me it's the transition from warm car to cold air back to warm air that almost shuts down my breathing), and even after I rest I was short of breath for a good 10 minutes.