RM> On the plus side, in recent years, we much more rarely get temperatures
RM> down in the low -30's and into the -40's Celcius.

ZI>We've had -20C during some of the past winter seasons, but it rarely falls be
  > that. I remember checking if the (then newly installed) LED lights in the li
  >ing fixture on the balcony still worked at -21C, and they did. 

My biggest worry whil I was still wintering elsewhere was that temps
much lower than -20c can damage LCD monitors and TV sets..

I generally have a lot of computer stuff here so I have to move
some of it with me if I leave here over the winter..

It's always nice finding people from far away places to find out
how the rest of the world makes out. In the early years of this
BBS system (early 90's) I made some good friends in a number of
countries, quite a few from Australia back then.

I even had a couple from Australia stop in to visit me here
when they were on a bit of a world tour one year. They were
lucky they got here as late in the spring as they did or
they'd have had to hike in through deep snow to get here..

Ha.. I always thought at the time how wild it would be to
maybe see a Kangaroo in the wild if I ever visited Australia,
but it was an amusing shock when they absolutely freaked out
over seeing a Chipmunk for the first time..    B)

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