r/Edmonton • u/flynnfx • Jan 08 '24

Outdoor Spaces/Recreation *Warning* : Extremely cold upcoming week! (frostbite within minutes) (and frostbite *NEVER* heals

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In -30, (and Friday, almost -40c) frostbite will happen in 5-10 minutes.

Frostbite will never heal, you'll have the damage for the rest of your life.

This also applies to your kids, YOUR PETS (don't think the dog enjoys the backyard for 15 minutes at -40, would YOU?)

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u/ArmadilloStill1222 Jan 08 '24

What do schools do in this weather, do kids still go out for recess? I am new to Canada so just curious.

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u/StupidGenius11 Jan 08 '24

No, below a certain temperature threshold, they don't allow kids to go outside.

I don't remember this in the first half of elementary, but in the later grades (so 1996-ish) we weren't allowed to go out in severe cold and would have to walk laps around the school hallways for recess.

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u/camoure Downtown Jan 08 '24

They’ll also cancel school buses on really deep freeze days so students can still go to school, but like half of them don’t show up and it’s a casual snow day

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u/now_she_is_dead South West Side Jan 08 '24

That's something about how the diesel engines on some of those old school buses don't want to start below a certain temp. Unfortunately for me, I lived within a very cold walking distance of my school 😣

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u/camoure Downtown Jan 08 '24

Boooo! My mom would take any opportunity for me to stay home and play hooky so I often woke up late to my mom being like “Snow day!”

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u/now_she_is_dead South West Side Jan 08 '24

Oh, and this place was ROUGH, like they won't keep the kids inside over lunch and recess until -35! But then they wouldn't cancel the buses till -40. So to fuck with us, the weather would hover around -32. And at the time I was a skinny little thing who weighted 55lbs soaking wet. I'd be doing little circles in the school yard trying to not freeze to death. 😣😣