“Canada is such a northern country, don’t we want a little global warming?” I often hear.
In a nutshell, NO.
We’re warming 2x faster than the rest of the world, driving extreme heat, flood, and sea level rise we are not prepared for. The wildfire season started in Feb this year. Feb!
#canadaday
Also, the continental weather makes summers warm over there. You really want 47C as here? With all the deaths we had, I doubt it.
Extra points to the possible new distribution range for the Aedes aegipty after that.
Ps: personal experience, it hurts! You don't want the hemorrhage one.
I made a temperature quilt the other year, it gets you comparing climates with all the other people making them. The Canadians were using an entirely difference scale for theirs. I had no idea your climate was so extreme. Cold winters, yes, but the summers were a shock. (I'm in Scotland, it's mild.)
Scotland has very mild weather due to the gulf stream. Living there for 8 years taught me how their variations for your latitude guys are very "strange". A former girlfriend was from Montreal and she couldn't believe Glasgow was so far up north because our summers were mild compared to Montreal.
Yep, it's great. It means we're all really taken aback when there's weather beyond what we're prepared for, and the Scandinavians all laughed at us that bad winter in 2010, but generally we get a much easier time of it, and are profoundly grateful. We get less rain than we grumble about, too.
Bergen is like Glasgow multiplied by two🤣. I remember that I said that the French know nothing about cloudy and rainy days If they never been into Scotland, and that we used to know nothing about rainy cloudy days until we knew about Bergen!
Do you remember the beast from the east a few years ago?!
Wasn't that the 2010 one, or around then? The snow was very pretty, but we couldn't get my wheelchair down the street, and I had trouble with a hospital visit due to their being generallly a bit overwhelmed.
Nope it was like 2018 when we ran out of bread and milk and the only aisles full of food were the milk substitutes and gluten free bread...😅!
Oh god sorry to hear that, I was kind of the same cause I was waiting for hip surgery and it was bloody dangerous to go out with my walking cane...
Ah, I must have started being smug about already having a bread machine before the pandemic! 2018 would fit. We did get some cute photos of the cat walking on the snow.
I really wish they'd salt the pavements better, yep. Surely councils would save money with fewer fractures occurring?
Welp it was dangerous as a russian roulette 😅! I think I felt over my already wearing a down hip a few times... and might have helped the fractures. Bad you could not go out, it was pretty and fluffy all over! but the views by the windows were also really good!
I'm an ambulatory wheelchair user, and we were just going to my partner's down the road. So I think we went by foot with a walking stick, very very carefully, and may have postponed it until I was having a good day.
You sound like you had a much worse time of it, so much sympathy!
Thank you Eve but being in a wheelchair chair isn't nice either! Hope you are doing much better now and with a lot of impetus! Also, I hope summer is dry enough to be at the park! :3
It is, we have a lovely one practically on the doorstep!
In my experience, the worst time is just before you start using the wheelchair. By this point you've probably needed it for years, but you're hobbling along with crutches or walking sticks, ending up exhausted and in pain.
Yes it's horrible, when you pass from walking sticks to a walker is already horrible! The old victorian buildings without lift are also not that friendly either! Hopefully you are on the first floor!
My flat is UK first floor, unfortunately, but my partner's is ground floor. We're hoping to be able to move into a ground floor flat before too long, and he won't miss carrying my wheelchair up the stairs at all.
I've never used a walker, what are they like?
I have used it three times in my life (teen/undergraduate/postgraduate) and I must say that the last generation is way nicer, liter, it folds and can have a lot of gadgets 🤣 to carry stuff or sit down, etc!
It depends on how much pain you have and your mobility issues. If pain is way too much I won't recommend it but if you need it to advance in recovery then it might be essential. The best is to ask a GP/Orthopedics and rehab you trust :) !
Ah, is that what is looks like when it's appropriate? I've got ME/CFS, it's worsened by exertion, and we're meant to keep it under 30 seconds. Rehab techniques cause serious deterioration for us. I'm glad they helped you, though.
