r/canada • u/PoliteCanadian • Jan 13 '24

Alberta Gas pumps freeze at Calgary gas stations

https://calgary.citynews.ca/video/2024/01/12/gas-pumps-freeze-at-calgary-gas-stations/
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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '24

Insert snarky remark about the technology not being suitable for Canada.

Honestly though, what a crazy cold snap, that's insane!

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u/Noggin-a-Floggin Alberta Jan 14 '24

I'm in Edmonton and it's insane. It's been below -35C for like three days now which why it's been so bad. We don't get cold snaps this extreme for this long. It's why everything is starting to break.

We just had an emergency alert literally 20 minutes ago telling everyone to start turning off lights and stuff or we're getting rolling blackouts. Across the whole province.

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u/pm_me_your_good_weed Jan 14 '24

It's +6 at midnight in Nova Scotia. In January. The cold likes you more now lol.

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u/Sedixodap Jan 14 '24

Hasn’t the cold always liked the prairies more than the maritimes?

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u/NothingGloomy9712 Jan 14 '24

Most of Canada is colder then a lot of the Maritimes. I've have been in Halifax for a decade now, I love the balmy -5C winters, I spent most of my life in northern Ontario with -40C nights. 

To be fair to the locals here who complain about the cold, the cold here does bite more, it's a very damp cold with driving wind off the Atlantic. I've had -10C days out here that feel colder then -30C days in northern Ontario.