Re: OT: bundle up

[Jean-Paul De Roover <j.de.roover@gmail.com>]

Last wek was rough for us here in Canada. -30, but -50 with windchill 
factor.

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:41 AM,  <antonyhequet@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Per,
> strange how our techie world is so fragile. We are going  to have big
> trouble when the climate chaos starts really hitting us.
> Antony
> ________________________________
> From: Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Sent: Mon, December 20, 2010 4:01:03 PM
> Subject: Re: OT: bundle up
>
>> antonyhequet@yahoo.com schrieb:
>>> hey Per,
>>>
>>> how can minus 7 paralyze everything in Sweden, doesn't it get a lot
>>> colder
>>> than that?
>
> No, not where I live (lower mid part; Stockholm, Gothenburg...).
> Sweden is a thin and long country, stretching from south to north like
> Long Tall Sally.
>
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Rainer Straschill
> <moinsound@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> The paralysis doesn't come from the temperature, but from the large
>> amounts
>> of snow continuing to fall I'd suspect
>
> It is actually both the snow and the temperature. Our trains are not
> built to last under the freezing point so the braking system may stop
> working as the temperature creeps down. That's up for a critical
> public discussion here just because of the fact that Sweden is so
> geographically thin and stretched out north to south with huge
> differences in winter temperatures. We really shouldn't use the same
> trains - or use "winter compatible" cars all over - but being a small
> country there's no economic headroom for better adapting the train
> system. Lots of the Swedish train cars are bought from Germany where
> they don't have the same issue with a huge temperature span over the
> nation territory.
>
> Rainer, that webcam link was fun! I've been up there and it is
> horrible, believe me. Seeing that video brings back some fun but not
> all pleasant memories from that cold area.
>
> Per
>
>
>



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