this is why

BobsYourUncle wrote:

RetiredRealtorRick wrote:
DANG, people, forget all this battery talk. We're talking 40 below here. How about someone explain why a person with good sense would endure such wretched temperatures in the first place??? Since we have the choice to live pretty much anywhere we please . . . WHY? :?

Because we can! :) That's why. It's fun, it's challenging, it's a mission. We are Canadian, we don't wimp out just because there's a chill in the air!:B

It's not for everyone, it's for a few of the hardy. There is an element of satisfaction that comes from braving the elements, and winning against the odds, making it work.
It's a purpose that, if we have to explain it, then people just don't understand.

I was FT for 2 Alberta winters in a 3 season TT. I made it work. Yes, it was difficult, but that's part of what made it fun. Given the chance, I would do it again.

Don is far better prepared than I was, and I got a lot of excellent sound advice from him when I ran into tough hurdles. Things like my fridge freezing up and conking out. He gave me a workaround.

It's like skydiving. People ask me why I would jump out of a perfectly good airplane? Because I can, that's why. The view up there is great!

Don has me beat by a few degrees for coldest temperature endured in an RV. I secretly want to hook up and head north into minus 40 to beat his best! :W

Fun? OK, if you say so. Challenging? Indeed.

After reading what the Cleveland clinic has to say about breathing ultra-cold air, and the toll it takes on vital organs, I'll choose to "wimp out", use my common sense, and 'get outta Dodge!'

I grew up in southeastern lower Michigan, and when I graduated college, I headed south and never turned back. And of course, it never got anywhere near -40 degrees in that part of Michigan -- that's crazy cold!!

I like skydiving too!! But it's an event, not a lifestyle.

I guess to each his own, but nobody will ever convince me that such frigid cold temperatures are harmless.