Extreme weather events are becoming more and more common, with records shattered down under during Australia's recent heatwave, and now, at the opposite end of the spectrum, the 'polar vortex' turning Midwestern U.S. into a winter wonderland.
The polar vortex is a band of strong winds, high up in the atmosphere that keeps bitterly cold winter season air locked around the Arctic region. Sometimes, like this year, it can drift further south than usual and envelop highly populated areas of North America. Chigaco has been particularly hard hit, with its notoriously windy location on Lake Michigan bringing freezing temperatures down to record-breaking lows.
With much of the Midwest on lockdown and people urged to stay indoors, some people have been braving the winter landscapes to take incredible images of the effects that the extremely cold weather is having on their daily lives. From exploding toilets to icy hairstyles, this list compiled by Bored Panda will give you chills just from looking at it!
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How Cold Is It In The Midwest? Bubbles Are Freezing
My Brother Was On One Of The Few Flights Into Chicago This Morning. He Took This Photo Of Frozen Lake Michigan From The Plane
After Two Days Of Freezing Rain, This Mold Came Out
Meanwhile In Minnesota. The Tank Exploded
My Sister Opened Her Car Door In Chicago
A Firefighter After Working In The -40° Polar Vortex
My God. We've Reached The Day After Tomorrow
Best part? Our fearless leader tweets how this cold disproves global warming. Ughhhhhh
Trying To Make The Most Of This -40 F Weather
Lunch In Chicago Today. I Like Mine Al Dente
“Is Iowa Really That Cold?”
Current Level Of Snow In Madison: One Whole Mingo
Pray For The Homeless During This Time! Give To Your Local Shelters. Most Are At Full Capacity
They probably can't let anymore in because of fire code violations. In situations like this, I think it would be better to close a school or other government building to convert to a temporary shelter.
Load More Replies...They should open ANYWHERE for them to get out of the weather - or there will be bodies on the streets.Bars, Restaurants, 24 hr large superstores - all should let the homeless benefit freely from their heating rather than see them freeze to death outside. I hope compassion wins
They have warming centers (like library's and coffee shops) where they will let you stay they all day (and usually free coffee) but only during business hours
Load More Replies...Open the churches, and the synagogues, and the temples, and every other proclaimed house of God. Shelter these people where you can. No one should be allowed out in this weather.
thoughts and prayers do jack apart from make rich folks feel better- these people are PEOPLE not a problem, not a statistic a f*****g life, but as long as we can hashtag we will all be happy in our nice warm houses.
You don't have to be rich to wish people well. Grow up. Put your money where your mouth is and take in the homeless.
Load More Replies...The Shik’s have opened their temples to the homeless & are serving hot meals.
OMG! He will die out there. There should be somewhere someone can let him in.
I thought and prayed for the homeless several time. They should be alright now.
Large amount of homeless on the street is a chronic societal problem but isn't easy to solve, especially in densely populated cities. Hopefully it's a problem we will begin to make progress with in the near future!
If there were a homeless person on the street in those weather conditions in my area i would invite them into my home for a hot drink and some food - I hope ANYONE would. To get some basic information and make a few calls cost nothing but a little time..
Load More Replies...Just saw in the news, a Good Samaritan woman bought 70 rooms at a local Chicago motel, for over 100 ppl. Kudos, to her.
The shik’s have opened their temples to the homeless & are serving food
SURE! Grab a picture and go pray a little... Heaven forbid you open your door though!
Discraceful humanity if someone just took this picture to post on instagram and walked away
Load More Replies...There were plenty of places open in my area that could get you out of the cold. Unfortunately some of these people probably didn't have a way there. We originally had free bus rides all over town, to take you anywhere or just to sit and get warm. Unfortunately the bus fluids started congealing and buses got stuck out on roads as well.
Can you believe this , then we look down our noses at third world countries , Instead of looking in the mirror
I read that somewhere churches were letting people in to sleep on the pews. It’s a good idea! More churches, synagogues, temples and mosques should do this. I think that they all teach to love your fellow man. Time to walk the talk!
Any city mayors that didn't set up additional emergency shelters in this weather to take in all the homeless people may just consider themselves murderers.
This is a time to let your golden heart shine. Open your home if you have to but don't walk past a fellow *human* on the street with the chance of that person freezing to death. That person is someone's child and you would be horrified to know someone walked past *your* child, parent or sibling and let your loved one freeze. Be kind - teach this kindness to others.
Any winter sees homeless people die, unfortunately; it's one of those tragedies that shouldn't happen in this day and age but still do.
We recently had a man die here. He was found on a bench after a really bad snowstorm the night before. We have several shelters, and they will allow anyone in during extreme weather. But many people will not go to them because of the rules about drinking, drugging, and fighting. I don't know this man's story, but it's certain that he froze to death. Very tragic and heartbreaking.
Load More Replies...Time for the local government to requisition a few motels methinks...
That sounds like an excellent idea. They could issue vouchers.
Load More Replies...In my previous life that could have been me - I was refused entry to my home after work by my ex partner - violent I sat on a circular bus for 2 hours going round and round - snow everywhere Come.10pm I gave up and forked out for a hotel room - if I hadnt had the money?????
It can happen to anyone, I’m glad you were able to stay safe and hope things are much better for you now x
Load More Replies...The polar vortex has killed so many homeless already, it’s really heartbreaking
there are currently 17 million billionaires in chicago....where are their prayers thoughts, efforts and dollars?
I have already escorted one to shelter, but our Polish frost was -2 or -3 C. Still, nobody at the shelter could believe that I actually brought a rather heavy male to shelter and that it had not been any of my relations or friends. The shelter was at 100 m distance :)
I read there are 80,000 rough sleepers in Chicago alone. I can't get my head around that number.
Here in Spain big cities they usually leave the metro open at night in these cases, I also know of churches that give Mass al night to justify the open church
Please donate to your local food banks as well. This breaks my heart. I'd seriously open my home if I lived in that area. Started safe.
Thank you for the reminder. We all need to see this! I will make a donation this month.
Why the hell don't the houses of worship open up for them. YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK! Oh, that's right, they don't pay taxes.
Pray for the homeless? How about you open up your damn churches and let them in?!
I was homeless for four years. Don't take photos. Stop and ask if the person is ok. Offer to buy them food or a bed in a backpacking hostel for the night. Offer to bring them a change if clothes. Tell them you care, it was the one thing I yearned for above all, to know that someone just cared.
A number of years ago I was staying in central Birmingham for a few days - mid relocation. At the side of the hotel each night in a doorway was a homeless young woman with her dog. It was cold - January, they were both swaddled in blankets. I would pass her on the way to the shop across the road. I stopped to ask if she was ok. In the shop I got a couple of hot pies from the food counter and some boneless cooked chicken for the dog. did this for the few nights I was there. Wasnt much I know.
Load More Replies...yeah, talking to your imaginary friend creates houses....
PRAYER ALONE ISN'T GOING TO SAVE THEM. They need physical assistance such as a warm place indoors, food, clothing, medical attention, etc. Just praying is a way for people to feel good about themselves without actually having done anything to help.
why churches aren't Open on time like this for homeless ?? surely , all those follower of god should practice what they preach for all year around ?? why letting human beings dying on the streets when you have zillion of churches available ??
Yeah lot of good prayers will do for that. Maybe instead hold your local government accountable and pitch in to help!
and this is calling, america the land of opportunity, please open warm center for this homeless
This particular photo is from 2013, and is of a day that is much, much warmer than what people are dealing with right now. That's probably closer to thirty above than thirty below. What's going on now is immeasurably worse.
It's not a good idea to take someone into your home, no matter how much compassion you have. There are too many problems associated with that. Call 911 and request a "welfare check." The police can take them to a shelter or hospital. If they are intoxicated, they can take them to the jail where they will have shelter and something to eat.
How thoughtful of you to think of the homeless. There must be some space somewhere for them to go a church school gym just some place warm. Take care & thank you again for your kindness. Coreen
I would take them into my warm home down in Florida...it has been a bit cold down here though.
This is just unacceptable. Strangers who have housing should be opening their doors to the homeless.
This is crazy... and this is how people needlessly die, it's a down right shame
OK FOR ALL YOU PPL BITCHING ABOUT THIS PICTURE....HOW THE HELL DO YOU KNOW IF THE PERSON TAKING THE PIC DIDN'T OFFER ANY HELP?!?!? WERE YOU F*****G STANDING THERE??? I DON'T SEE ANY ONE OF YOU TELLING STORIES OF HOW YOU HELPED ANYONE.....ALL I SEE IS BITCHING AND JUDGEMENT.......HUMANITY AT IT'S BEST!!!
I think of the homeless and hope every city, community does do their best, there are places if they give it some thought !!!
This is not okay. Nothing, human or domestic animal should have to be out trying to survive in that weather.
This is just horrible. A Cpl weeks ago with that first snow storm we had there was a state of emergency & a code blue, where the homeless were supposed to be picked up and taken to shelters as the highs were below freezing and wind gusts of 35mph +. How many of them actually got to safety I dont know but this just breaks my heart.
The Saddest part of all of this is that some of the homeless have such severe mental health issues (paranoid schizophrenia for one) that they Can't stand to be housed with other people..my heart goes out to them all..
I seriously hope someone helped this poor soul instead of just taking pics for social media.
Anyone else think instead of taking a picture of homeless people they should instead offer to do something for them? Idiots lol
Perhaps they did both, and a photo is a powerful way of reminding others that there are people out there who need help. Taking a photo and offering help aren’t mutually exclusive.
Load More Replies...But there are people dying of cold so the issue is real. Saying it’s fake doesn’t make the problem go away!
Load More Replies...Even better... give a damn all year round, ACT on said belief, and a few steps in our society's trek to being worth much of any kind of faith or admiration.
I have been homeless and believe it or not there are people out there that will not go inside no matter what for many different reasons . Mental health issues including PTSD ,and some straight up have so much pride they will risk death .I live in Phoenix Arizona and when the summer temps hit !18 - 120 degrees it can and does kill but there are some that will not go into heat relief the day it hit a record high of 122 degrees several died but you can't force them . I guess sometimes that decision is the only control they have left over their lives ,cloths food ,personal hygiene ect. is all chosen for them .
NO. NO! DO something for the homeless. Invite someone into your home for a few days. Pray? Instead of actually helping ...
Ya cause praying does s**t for them!! Why not take these poor souls to the nearest tax-free, heated, empty churches and give them a warm place to survive.
no one in their right mind would "sit" outside...even a numb brain would find some sort of shelter...
This is why illegal immigration must end. Take care of these homeless people now!!
I can't believe someone would just take a picture of someone possibly dying instead of providing help!
Instead of praying for them, do something useful and get a couple of them a motel room for the night or if your really brave put them up in your house until the vortex subsides. Yeh, right! Like that will EVER happen. Christian goodwill my a*s!
Where did you get the idea the OP was Christian?
Load More Replies...I live in IL and a lot of these people were refusing shelter. It was really sad to hear.
Instead of taking a picture of em offer to house them or at least do something- Idiots
There was this woman who payed for 70 hotel rooms for 2 nights for the homeless people! She is a hero! PRAY ON! PRAY ON!!!!! PRAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY ON!!!
It's So Cold In Chicago They Set Commuter Train Tracks On Fire To Warm Them
It's So Cold In Iowa That We Froze Antifreeze
Eye Lashes On Fleek! Is That A Thing? Is This The New Winter Running Fashion Statement?
wow, never experienced this before. It looks dangerous being out there.
What Happens When You Blow Bubbles In A Freezing Weather
Meanwhile In Wisconsin
Freezing Our Pants Off In Minnesota
When These Are The Inside Doors... You Know We Are Polar Vortexing
Cadillac Michigan The Light Poles Are Shivering. Science Mannn
Landlord Decided To Turn Down The Heat Today In My MN Apartment As It Reached -40°
The idiot must have forgotten he pays my electric and doesn't realize that I value my comfort over safety or energy conservation.
I don't know if you have human rights in America (not many, anyway) but you should be able to prosecute him for that.
Going To Daycare When It's -30 Outside
Frozen Chicken Eggs
Wow! That looks amazing! Imagine laying it on the frying pan and watching it melt. *went to put eggs outside*
You Know It's Cold When The Toilet Paper Is Frozen In The Outhouse
The Detroit River, Frozen All The Way To Canada
Got So Cold Last Night That Our Vodka Froze! For Reference The Freezing Point For Vodka Is -16
We Had A House Fire South Of Cameron Today. Our Chief Mitch Hansen Thought It Was A Splash Park
Minnesota's Officers
Letting My Car Heat Up During The Polar Vortex
House Is Freezing From The Inside During The Coldest Day In A Decade
The Beauty The Cold Brings To South Dakota
I live in southeast Virginia. I can't even wrap my mind around most of these pics.
This Flash-Frozen Fire Hydrant
Let's hope the fire department didn't have to use this hydrant!
This Door At Work In Minnesota
A Sheet Of Ice Formed Between The Glass Panes Of This Door
Polar Vortex Lesson: Don’t Try To Hang Dry Your Clothes Outside
Polar Vortex (Temp. 16 F /-9 C)
Thanks for telling us a temperature that the rest of the world actually uses.
My Parents Sent Me This Pic Of Our Peephole (From The Indoor Side)
My Neighbor’s Furnace Exhaust Is Creating An Interesting Icicle
We are marching to Pretoria - because we won't freeze our a**es off there!
One Cold Rowdy Dog On The Bulkhead. Still Looking For Leftover Canteen Snacks
I Just Wanted To See How Long It Would Take For An Egg To Freeze Outside And Also What Would Become Of My Egg
Cold Spell
Yes, that is ice on the inside of our house. It's not the first time that ice has formed around our door. We've talked to our landlord and hope to get a new door and door frame in spring when we don't have to worry about getting frostbite about people outside for five minutes. It would really help with our utility bill as well.
It Was So Cold In Chicago That The Paint Came Off My Car
That's probably down to a bad paint job. I'm sure it's supposed to last even in sub zero conditions.
"No, Believe Me, 'Tis Very Cold; The Wind Is Northerly"
Looks like these jeans are having a conversation. "Check it out, guys, I froze in such a funny position!"
Ice Is Freezing As Soon As It Comes Out Of Our Faucet Because It's So Cold
This Is My Buddy Jesse At The Arrowhead 135 In Mn Yesterday. Day Time Temp Was -26 °F
In A Matter Of 2 Minutes Walking Across Campus, My Glasses Started To Frost/Ice Over
Everyone’s been talking about how cold Chicago is right now. The upper Midwest (I’m talking Fargo area) had windchills up to -60 below zero, ten degrees colder than Chicago. In a matter of 2 minutes walking across campus, my glasses started to frost/ice over.
Last winter I drove my bicycle to work and had to stop after 10 minutes because my glasses were covered with frost patterns, they looked beautiful but I couldn't see anything at all. It was only -14°C that morning.
My Wall Is Freezing In My Bedroom. There Are No Pipes Behind It. Chicago
As I know, most of the houses in America are built on wooden frame, with some isolation foam between wooden planks inside and outside. At the corners either is a slim wooden pole either the isolation is not well connected. Either way, this is bad in the future, the humidity and the wood don't mix well over long periods of time.
So My Soap Is Frozen In My Shower
It's So Cold Here In Iowa That There Is Now Frost On The Inside Of My Door Hinges
My Beard Froze While Waiting Bus. I Wish It Would Be Summer Already
Living in Australia, I always thought to myself: Nah, it can't be that bad. After looking at this post, it blew my mind. Wow! How do people live with this? I guess if you grow up there, you get used to it, but I can't even imagine living like that!
Most of these shouldn't be happening. That's what you have heating and insulation for. I assume in these places such weather isn't common so they were unprepared ( ? I thought US does get some kind of winter though?). As a Russian I can tell you you're definitely not supposed to get ice *inside*, whether it's -20 or -40 C out there ;P Also, I love winter and am jealous right now, warming up to disgusting +1 here atm, mah snow is melting D:
Load More Replies...What confuses me mostly, that in a few pictures the apartments seems to be zero isolated and the doors are made of thin materials
History lesson, following WWII there was an enormous boom in construction in the US. There was high demand for single-family housing, and builders built down to a price, instead of up to a level of quality. At the time, insulation was rather expensive, and energy was quite cheap, so it made sense to insulate lightly. The snow coming in through corners is down to the overlapping issues that can develop at corners: Corner framing style, is it a 4x4 post, two 2x4s, three 2x4s or something else? Is there a dead space that didn't get insulated? Is the sheathing continuous or is it made of boards with spaces between, if it is, the subfloor is likely also boards with spaces between, leaving plenty of gaps for air-infiltration.
Load More Replies...Ok as someone from West-Norway who been through a few super frosty winters and family owns a cabin up the mountains, how the f**k do you get frost indoors?
With all this cold I'm expecting Trump to come with the idea of a Ice Wall.
So Trump would be a white walker at the north side of the wall. Pretty accurate.
Load More Replies...I live in Canada, and those temperatures are normal for us in the winter (every winter), no big drama about it. Our houses are well-insulated and well-heated. As a Realtor, I see plenty of houses, and I've never seen bathrooms or sinks frozen. Seeing some of the photos here, I start to think that some people in the USA are seriously neglecting the insulation and the weatherproofing of their homes. On a positive note - perhaps now they will do something about it.
We just had a house built and that made me realize that insulation is probably everyone's number one preoccupation here when building something.
Load More Replies...So much ice inside...do they not have winters normally at all? There gotta be like no heating nor insulation for this. That's awful. Outside looks really cool though, am jealous :P
Here in the US it can get pretty damn cold but all this ice in the house business isnt normal. This is the closest it's been here in over a decade. There is heating and insulation, but those things just cant compete with the temp outside. In fact, anywhere there is ice in the house means there was condensation from the heat in the house. They would have to keep the inside temp around 80 degrees for it to even FEEL like 60 degrees in there. Most of those people will probably have a very hefty bill energy bill when this is over.
Load More Replies...America: what's wrong with your houses? I live in Sweden and despite the -19 C outside, my home does not look like that! The tank on my toilet doesn't freeze, I don't have icy frost on my walls, I don't have ice creeping in from around the door! I have +23 C inside and I can walk around barefoot. Seriously what's wrong with your houses?? Why don't you build houses that can withstand the cold?
Too bad that Trumpster has nit even a clue that global worming means climate change... Well, but a no-brainer will not get it...
He has a bit? And what is global worming? Is that a new thing? A no-brainer? Jesus, you are a malaka.
Load More Replies...As much as I sympathize with people going through those circumstances, I hate all the staged pictures specially prepared to show "oh how cold that is". We used to have -40 winters each year, every year back in the days and noone was whining, it was normal.
And yet people seem convinced that this time it's because of globalwarmingclimatechange or whatever. To say this IS because of climate change is bananas.
Load More Replies...I live in upstate NY where these temps happen at least once or twice every winter, so we are prepared for it. I can assure you all, this is not "normal" and yes, we may be an evil capitalist country with an utter douchebag for president, but that has nothing to do with the fact that most of the houses in this list just weren't built for that kind of cold......
The Mexicans are the reason we are going through a polar vortex.
Load More Replies...Where I live, it is already in the 60-85 temp range. In the morning, well, that can be a different story, but, this is DEF incomparable to this. Harsh, Mother Nature, just harsh.
How climate change contributes to crazy winter weather, explained in a simple diagram: winter-sto...2c77d4.jpg
Going to be quite a number of deaths attributed to this cold spell. People with inadequate heating etc, not to mention poor homeless on the streets.
Mostly it's been the elderly, recently a college student who was out in the early morning for some reason.
Load More Replies...Today at Costco as we were leaving, my mum saw some people running to the doors, not knowing Costco had just closed. She put down her window to tell them but it was so cold that the window refused to go back up and it took a whole 10 minutes for it to go back up inch by inch
Grew up in Central Manitoba, people just deal with it when they get it every winter. If you're not used to it, then yeah, it's pretty hard on you.
I'm Canadian so this is pretty normal for me. All the snow, ice, frozen toilets, frost taking over the door, pretty used to it.
I live fairly far up north in Canada and this is just a normal day in winter here. :P
It's time like this that I'm glad I live in California (about 15 miles south of San Francisco). The coldest it gets here is the upper 30's. It hasn't snowed here since 1976. Of course, it also never gets above the low 60's in the summer. Gotta love that fog.
I live in Oregon...it's wet but so temperate. I am so sorry that this is happening and I'm sending warm thoughts. If you need a place to crash...and can get out of the vortex, I've got a blow up mattress. Go west!
these pics are fun and some are bad, but that guy sitting on a bench in a blanket breaks my heart. Doors and rooms are freezing on the inside, and we let homeless people sit outside? what a world :-( It would be very hard for me to not just pick random people up from the street ....
A s****y state crowded with s****y people, with s****y disgusting heat and humidity.
Load More Replies...I live in Ludington by the badger that goes to Wisconsin lots of tourists come here in the summer it’s really cold rn
i moved out of that kind of stuff for a reason--these pics only reinforce it! snow is beautiful when it comes to landscaping, but i'll stick to seeing it on the internet!
Omg, -20, -30 C :D Here in the mountain too, and this is normal, people live, work, play.. not make a drama because of cold.
And the strong winter (with 4-5-8 m snow and so many lavine) is from middle of october-to april, not just 4-5 week, as in USA.
Load More Replies...I think this is a whole lot of nope here. I'm glad I live in a state where it only gets cold for a week or two in the winter. I grew up in PA but promptly moved south as soon as I was old enough.
good. stop bombing other countries then probably you will experience a warmer winter next year. til then, happy freezing your jiblets and hoo-haas.
I live in the Chicago area.. they recently cancelled school for almost a whole week because it was so cold.
These pictures make me scared and uncomfortable....It may be waaaaay past the normal thing when it's winter and that thing called polar vortex.
Meanwhile, Texas gets some nice 80 degree weather. We're down here playing outside while y'all are freezing yourselves to death :) (Don't get too jealous- we also get 110 degree summers- on cool days!)
Get used to it, wait until the next few years...as we creep into the next ice age, no sunspots, the sun is getting dark, google sun simulator.
Can’t believe (in reality) that extreme cold weather can happen to us! Been ages!
I understand the cold like -20 something could be a big deal. But -10? It is winter for godsakes I have a feeling that because the climat is changing people are forgetting what winters are. And also America this is what you get with poor house bouilding quality and piping. I knowcthat in some regions there never was such cold winter, but the pics with -9 celsius are just like normal for winter. Aren't they?
How about crediting the people you stole these pics/gifs from, you low life c*nts!
I needed a WOW button! These were great. My work closed those two days, and I didn't even stick my nose outside!
I am another Australian and I cannot imagine cold like you are all experiencing. Heat yes, at present Australia has one state burning with massive bush fires and another drowning in flood waters but we never experience this type of cold
But don't worry Trump voters, climate change is just a hoax right? Honestly it takes an off-the-charts level of willful ignorance to refuse to acknowledge what's before your own eyes.
Ok so when I heard on the News about your weather I dunno just assumed it wasn't as bad as they were making it out to be, after looking at the pictures it's all hit home just how bad your weather is, we have cold weather too here but like on -4 to -8/9 and we suffer but like I've said before it's what 'one' is used too, there's no.. Well our weather's colder than yours ect, everyone is from different parts of the world, hats off to you guys over there! Take care, keep warm, much LOVE
my friend living in Saint Petersburg in Russia and she never have ice inside even with minus 40ºCelcius
Where I live it's +35 C 91 F .. and I was looking at snow pictures dreaming of how nice it might be ..... probably mistaken??
I'm always complainng about the temperature during summer here in Rio de Janeiro, right now around 42Cº. But after looking at those pics, I'm glad to be in Rio...
Just to remind the ignorant people that America is a continent and not a country, in many places of America today it is very hot.
NORTH America is a continent. America is a country.
Load More Replies...Australian - It's been sitting around 40°C and i just can't imagine how cold that is.
This is why as an Aussie I get NO sympathy when I saw in winter 'I am freezing' my US friends laugh at me, and remind me what freezing actually means. I used to feel all put out by it, now not so much, because OUCH.
Get some Canadian friends because they can laugh at your US friends because they don't know what "I am freezing" really means either, haha.
Load More Replies...Not surprising, considering we're well and truly overdue for an ice age. People so worried about man made climate change, and they don't stop to think the climate has been changing since the beginning of time...and the clock is ticking. We need to learn to adapt, and even have evacuation plans for this type of event in the future. I'm not being overly dramatic either; they found the remains of a woolly mammoth who was snap frozen so quickly the flowers in its stomach were preserved; you know how cold it has to be for that to happen? Too cold for humans to endure.
i wonder how many animals get frozen to death becuse pepole didnt let them hide inside, left them chained outside and so on...
None? Yeah, none. Let's go with that assumption because it's already too late and I'd be super sad.
Load More Replies...Well....as An Oil and Gas Insprctor working in Alberta's Oil Sands....I think most of you have no CLUE what REAL cold is....-20 to -30F is a Normal Winter day up here....we call stuff -40C (-40F) and colder...as "Chilly"... but then I had to laugh...was in North Carolina a few years ago and it was 72F outside and there were folks wearing Down Jackets and Toques (hats in Americun), on their heads....
https://scied.ucar.edu/blog/why-polar-vortex-keeps-breaking-out-arctic _________________Typically, a large difference in temperature between the air of the polar vortex and the air in the mid-latitudes drives the polar jet stream. However, the Arctic is warming faster than other areas of the planet, which makes the difference in temperature less distinct. This causes the polar jet stream to meander north and south instead of making a beeline around,,,,,,,,,,,
I think I remember why I moved from Northern Indiana, by Chicago, to California.
I feel for those people. I am so glad I don't live in those states. Currently, where I live... I thought this current temp was cold until I saw these pictures and what it is there. I just looked and saw here in Washington State, it is 36 F/2 C. It'd probably feel like summer right there for them. I hope this weather doesn't last long. I already feel sad for the people that have died. Stay and dress warm. Don't go out unless you have no choice. <3
... these people do not have very good insulation. More to the point, global climate change is putting this kind of weather in places where people didn't NEED overly great insulation before this.
As it is with your intense cold we suffer intense heat. Our area rated the highest January temps ever recorded. Some places 48.5 celcius.
I live in a tropical country where even right now its hot af and I'm under a tree enjoying the breeze. Lol. I feel much more grateful for the sun now. I dont think could ever survive if i migrate and have to experience those temperatures
my sympathies to your situation, midwesterners....I live in the land of weather extremes on the Texas Gulf Coast. Hurricane Harvey had flood water at my doorstep, so I got out of it light. Some people in Houston had muddy water six feet deep in their bedroom...on the second floor. I have had heat exhaustion in the summer several times just from walking from the air conditioned building to the car out on the far backside of a full parking lot. Yikes. We got so much rain in 1987 through 1988 that the inches rainfall were more than what certain parts of the Amazon get. I could do nothing as I watched seventy expensive hybrid roses drown (even though they were planted in a well-drained raised bed). To replace them at current online prices would be about $2000. So I am sympathetic to your situation. Please show similar concern the next time the US gulf coast goes through another weather catastrophe.
Oh 'Muricans - you're so funny! This kind of s**t happens every single winter up here in Canada... and it lasts for 6 f*****g months!
Part of it is the 'unknown' of a temperature extreme. The last time it was this cold in my area was in 1995. That leaves everyone under the age of 25 with no experience at all with this kind of cold. Once they've experienced it a time or two, they will be prepared when it rolls around again.
Load More Replies...This makes me nervous as in a week I'm moving to Wisconsin and have to go across South Dakota and Minnesota. Granted I'm not driving but still. :/
You all understand that climate warming = increased turbulence? This is just another effect.
Because it never got this cold before? Oh right, it did. Explain.
Load More Replies...That's not climate change, is it Donald? Of course not. It's natural for ice to form INSIDE people's houses.
Depends where you live. Take your secrete crush on Trump elsewhere.
Load More Replies...Hey Guys, Welcome to The Grand Solar Minimum. Nothing really new here, but it looks like this one will be on par with the Maunder Minimum of the 17th century. Its called "Climate Change", but not in the direction the Satist Whackos keep telling us. Just like anything the gov-ment tells you, do the opposite and you're doing ok. 00-Yep-5c5...c38302.gif
It's unfortunate people are so quick to disregard comments like this. Government propaganda doesn't just happen in Nth Korea, folks.
Load More Replies...Well, you must live somewhere else, kid. Weather is different in different places
Load More Replies...Living in Australia, I always thought to myself: Nah, it can't be that bad. After looking at this post, it blew my mind. Wow! How do people live with this? I guess if you grow up there, you get used to it, but I can't even imagine living like that!
Most of these shouldn't be happening. That's what you have heating and insulation for. I assume in these places such weather isn't common so they were unprepared ( ? I thought US does get some kind of winter though?). As a Russian I can tell you you're definitely not supposed to get ice *inside*, whether it's -20 or -40 C out there ;P Also, I love winter and am jealous right now, warming up to disgusting +1 here atm, mah snow is melting D:
Load More Replies...What confuses me mostly, that in a few pictures the apartments seems to be zero isolated and the doors are made of thin materials
History lesson, following WWII there was an enormous boom in construction in the US. There was high demand for single-family housing, and builders built down to a price, instead of up to a level of quality. At the time, insulation was rather expensive, and energy was quite cheap, so it made sense to insulate lightly. The snow coming in through corners is down to the overlapping issues that can develop at corners: Corner framing style, is it a 4x4 post, two 2x4s, three 2x4s or something else? Is there a dead space that didn't get insulated? Is the sheathing continuous or is it made of boards with spaces between, if it is, the subfloor is likely also boards with spaces between, leaving plenty of gaps for air-infiltration.
Load More Replies...Ok as someone from West-Norway who been through a few super frosty winters and family owns a cabin up the mountains, how the f**k do you get frost indoors?
With all this cold I'm expecting Trump to come with the idea of a Ice Wall.
So Trump would be a white walker at the north side of the wall. Pretty accurate.
Load More Replies...I live in Canada, and those temperatures are normal for us in the winter (every winter), no big drama about it. Our houses are well-insulated and well-heated. As a Realtor, I see plenty of houses, and I've never seen bathrooms or sinks frozen. Seeing some of the photos here, I start to think that some people in the USA are seriously neglecting the insulation and the weatherproofing of their homes. On a positive note - perhaps now they will do something about it.
We just had a house built and that made me realize that insulation is probably everyone's number one preoccupation here when building something.
Load More Replies...So much ice inside...do they not have winters normally at all? There gotta be like no heating nor insulation for this. That's awful. Outside looks really cool though, am jealous :P
Here in the US it can get pretty damn cold but all this ice in the house business isnt normal. This is the closest it's been here in over a decade. There is heating and insulation, but those things just cant compete with the temp outside. In fact, anywhere there is ice in the house means there was condensation from the heat in the house. They would have to keep the inside temp around 80 degrees for it to even FEEL like 60 degrees in there. Most of those people will probably have a very hefty bill energy bill when this is over.
Load More Replies...America: what's wrong with your houses? I live in Sweden and despite the -19 C outside, my home does not look like that! The tank on my toilet doesn't freeze, I don't have icy frost on my walls, I don't have ice creeping in from around the door! I have +23 C inside and I can walk around barefoot. Seriously what's wrong with your houses?? Why don't you build houses that can withstand the cold?
Too bad that Trumpster has nit even a clue that global worming means climate change... Well, but a no-brainer will not get it...
He has a bit? And what is global worming? Is that a new thing? A no-brainer? Jesus, you are a malaka.
Load More Replies...As much as I sympathize with people going through those circumstances, I hate all the staged pictures specially prepared to show "oh how cold that is". We used to have -40 winters each year, every year back in the days and noone was whining, it was normal.
And yet people seem convinced that this time it's because of globalwarmingclimatechange or whatever. To say this IS because of climate change is bananas.
Load More Replies...I live in upstate NY where these temps happen at least once or twice every winter, so we are prepared for it. I can assure you all, this is not "normal" and yes, we may be an evil capitalist country with an utter douchebag for president, but that has nothing to do with the fact that most of the houses in this list just weren't built for that kind of cold......
The Mexicans are the reason we are going through a polar vortex.
Load More Replies...Where I live, it is already in the 60-85 temp range. In the morning, well, that can be a different story, but, this is DEF incomparable to this. Harsh, Mother Nature, just harsh.
How climate change contributes to crazy winter weather, explained in a simple diagram: winter-sto...2c77d4.jpg
Going to be quite a number of deaths attributed to this cold spell. People with inadequate heating etc, not to mention poor homeless on the streets.
Mostly it's been the elderly, recently a college student who was out in the early morning for some reason.
Load More Replies...Today at Costco as we were leaving, my mum saw some people running to the doors, not knowing Costco had just closed. She put down her window to tell them but it was so cold that the window refused to go back up and it took a whole 10 minutes for it to go back up inch by inch
Grew up in Central Manitoba, people just deal with it when they get it every winter. If you're not used to it, then yeah, it's pretty hard on you.
I'm Canadian so this is pretty normal for me. All the snow, ice, frozen toilets, frost taking over the door, pretty used to it.
I live fairly far up north in Canada and this is just a normal day in winter here. :P
It's time like this that I'm glad I live in California (about 15 miles south of San Francisco). The coldest it gets here is the upper 30's. It hasn't snowed here since 1976. Of course, it also never gets above the low 60's in the summer. Gotta love that fog.
I live in Oregon...it's wet but so temperate. I am so sorry that this is happening and I'm sending warm thoughts. If you need a place to crash...and can get out of the vortex, I've got a blow up mattress. Go west!
these pics are fun and some are bad, but that guy sitting on a bench in a blanket breaks my heart. Doors and rooms are freezing on the inside, and we let homeless people sit outside? what a world :-( It would be very hard for me to not just pick random people up from the street ....
A s****y state crowded with s****y people, with s****y disgusting heat and humidity.
Load More Replies...I live in Ludington by the badger that goes to Wisconsin lots of tourists come here in the summer it’s really cold rn
i moved out of that kind of stuff for a reason--these pics only reinforce it! snow is beautiful when it comes to landscaping, but i'll stick to seeing it on the internet!
Omg, -20, -30 C :D Here in the mountain too, and this is normal, people live, work, play.. not make a drama because of cold.
And the strong winter (with 4-5-8 m snow and so many lavine) is from middle of october-to april, not just 4-5 week, as in USA.
Load More Replies...I think this is a whole lot of nope here. I'm glad I live in a state where it only gets cold for a week or two in the winter. I grew up in PA but promptly moved south as soon as I was old enough.
good. stop bombing other countries then probably you will experience a warmer winter next year. til then, happy freezing your jiblets and hoo-haas.
I live in the Chicago area.. they recently cancelled school for almost a whole week because it was so cold.
These pictures make me scared and uncomfortable....It may be waaaaay past the normal thing when it's winter and that thing called polar vortex.
Meanwhile, Texas gets some nice 80 degree weather. We're down here playing outside while y'all are freezing yourselves to death :) (Don't get too jealous- we also get 110 degree summers- on cool days!)
Get used to it, wait until the next few years...as we creep into the next ice age, no sunspots, the sun is getting dark, google sun simulator.
Can’t believe (in reality) that extreme cold weather can happen to us! Been ages!
I understand the cold like -20 something could be a big deal. But -10? It is winter for godsakes I have a feeling that because the climat is changing people are forgetting what winters are. And also America this is what you get with poor house bouilding quality and piping. I knowcthat in some regions there never was such cold winter, but the pics with -9 celsius are just like normal for winter. Aren't they?
How about crediting the people you stole these pics/gifs from, you low life c*nts!
I needed a WOW button! These were great. My work closed those two days, and I didn't even stick my nose outside!
I am another Australian and I cannot imagine cold like you are all experiencing. Heat yes, at present Australia has one state burning with massive bush fires and another drowning in flood waters but we never experience this type of cold
But don't worry Trump voters, climate change is just a hoax right? Honestly it takes an off-the-charts level of willful ignorance to refuse to acknowledge what's before your own eyes.
Ok so when I heard on the News about your weather I dunno just assumed it wasn't as bad as they were making it out to be, after looking at the pictures it's all hit home just how bad your weather is, we have cold weather too here but like on -4 to -8/9 and we suffer but like I've said before it's what 'one' is used too, there's no.. Well our weather's colder than yours ect, everyone is from different parts of the world, hats off to you guys over there! Take care, keep warm, much LOVE
my friend living in Saint Petersburg in Russia and she never have ice inside even with minus 40ºCelcius
Where I live it's +35 C 91 F .. and I was looking at snow pictures dreaming of how nice it might be ..... probably mistaken??
I'm always complainng about the temperature during summer here in Rio de Janeiro, right now around 42Cº. But after looking at those pics, I'm glad to be in Rio...
Just to remind the ignorant people that America is a continent and not a country, in many places of America today it is very hot.
NORTH America is a continent. America is a country.
Load More Replies...Australian - It's been sitting around 40°C and i just can't imagine how cold that is.
This is why as an Aussie I get NO sympathy when I saw in winter 'I am freezing' my US friends laugh at me, and remind me what freezing actually means. I used to feel all put out by it, now not so much, because OUCH.
Get some Canadian friends because they can laugh at your US friends because they don't know what "I am freezing" really means either, haha.
Load More Replies...Not surprising, considering we're well and truly overdue for an ice age. People so worried about man made climate change, and they don't stop to think the climate has been changing since the beginning of time...and the clock is ticking. We need to learn to adapt, and even have evacuation plans for this type of event in the future. I'm not being overly dramatic either; they found the remains of a woolly mammoth who was snap frozen so quickly the flowers in its stomach were preserved; you know how cold it has to be for that to happen? Too cold for humans to endure.
i wonder how many animals get frozen to death becuse pepole didnt let them hide inside, left them chained outside and so on...
None? Yeah, none. Let's go with that assumption because it's already too late and I'd be super sad.
Load More Replies...Well....as An Oil and Gas Insprctor working in Alberta's Oil Sands....I think most of you have no CLUE what REAL cold is....-20 to -30F is a Normal Winter day up here....we call stuff -40C (-40F) and colder...as "Chilly"... but then I had to laugh...was in North Carolina a few years ago and it was 72F outside and there were folks wearing Down Jackets and Toques (hats in Americun), on their heads....
https://scied.ucar.edu/blog/why-polar-vortex-keeps-breaking-out-arctic _________________Typically, a large difference in temperature between the air of the polar vortex and the air in the mid-latitudes drives the polar jet stream. However, the Arctic is warming faster than other areas of the planet, which makes the difference in temperature less distinct. This causes the polar jet stream to meander north and south instead of making a beeline around,,,,,,,,,,,
I think I remember why I moved from Northern Indiana, by Chicago, to California.
I feel for those people. I am so glad I don't live in those states. Currently, where I live... I thought this current temp was cold until I saw these pictures and what it is there. I just looked and saw here in Washington State, it is 36 F/2 C. It'd probably feel like summer right there for them. I hope this weather doesn't last long. I already feel sad for the people that have died. Stay and dress warm. Don't go out unless you have no choice. <3
... these people do not have very good insulation. More to the point, global climate change is putting this kind of weather in places where people didn't NEED overly great insulation before this.
As it is with your intense cold we suffer intense heat. Our area rated the highest January temps ever recorded. Some places 48.5 celcius.
I live in a tropical country where even right now its hot af and I'm under a tree enjoying the breeze. Lol. I feel much more grateful for the sun now. I dont think could ever survive if i migrate and have to experience those temperatures
my sympathies to your situation, midwesterners....I live in the land of weather extremes on the Texas Gulf Coast. Hurricane Harvey had flood water at my doorstep, so I got out of it light. Some people in Houston had muddy water six feet deep in their bedroom...on the second floor. I have had heat exhaustion in the summer several times just from walking from the air conditioned building to the car out on the far backside of a full parking lot. Yikes. We got so much rain in 1987 through 1988 that the inches rainfall were more than what certain parts of the Amazon get. I could do nothing as I watched seventy expensive hybrid roses drown (even though they were planted in a well-drained raised bed). To replace them at current online prices would be about $2000. So I am sympathetic to your situation. Please show similar concern the next time the US gulf coast goes through another weather catastrophe.
Oh 'Muricans - you're so funny! This kind of s**t happens every single winter up here in Canada... and it lasts for 6 f*****g months!
Part of it is the 'unknown' of a temperature extreme. The last time it was this cold in my area was in 1995. That leaves everyone under the age of 25 with no experience at all with this kind of cold. Once they've experienced it a time or two, they will be prepared when it rolls around again.
Load More Replies...This makes me nervous as in a week I'm moving to Wisconsin and have to go across South Dakota and Minnesota. Granted I'm not driving but still. :/
You all understand that climate warming = increased turbulence? This is just another effect.
Because it never got this cold before? Oh right, it did. Explain.
Load More Replies...That's not climate change, is it Donald? Of course not. It's natural for ice to form INSIDE people's houses.
Depends where you live. Take your secrete crush on Trump elsewhere.
Load More Replies...Hey Guys, Welcome to The Grand Solar Minimum. Nothing really new here, but it looks like this one will be on par with the Maunder Minimum of the 17th century. Its called "Climate Change", but not in the direction the Satist Whackos keep telling us. Just like anything the gov-ment tells you, do the opposite and you're doing ok. 00-Yep-5c5...c38302.gif
It's unfortunate people are so quick to disregard comments like this. Government propaganda doesn't just happen in Nth Korea, folks.
Load More Replies...Well, you must live somewhere else, kid. Weather is different in different places
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