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    Emily Waldorf replied to the topic Character Castle 2.0 in the forum Fantasy Writers 5 years ago

    Oh, goodness!!! That’s SO cold!! That’s horrid!
    but it gets the “we’re survivors” feeling going very strong! (Which is so FUN, b/c you can brag about it to others.)  The coldest I remember is -40 C/F. I think there was a windchill. When you have even a breath of wind at that temperature, it feels like sandpaper on your cheeks. It’s too cold even to snow at that temperature.

    Also, all the animals’ water buckets freeze over so you have to constantly defrost it and the pipes freeze outside so you have to stomp inside in barn boots to get hot water to slightly defrost everythingXD Very fun XD
    Yep yep! Well…we don’t defrost it, we just get rubber dishes for the animals so that we can break the ice out by sheer force. (It doesn’t frost over. It freezes solid). I wonder if in some ways, being so cold makes things almost easier…we don’t have much of a freeze/thaw-never-really-frozen-never-really-thawed cycle. Do you? Do you get a lot of snow?

    Also…warm water to defrost stuff? *Shudders* You need like, water heaters or something. It isn’t that fun when the pump ceases working, and we have to track inside to get water for everything. 🙂

    Do you get a lot of ice where you live? Can you skate? We can usually skate every few years.

    I don’t know if we have much natural skating. Cities pour skating rinks outside in the town square or wherever and let the cold weather keep them frozen all winter. I’m sure I could find a pond or something to skate on some years, but I never got into skating much. It’s super fun, but I just…don’t have skates and can’t keep my feet. Every year I think I should try it though. 🙂 Do you get to do “natural skating”–as in, skate on some frozen lake or whatever, or do people have to make skating rinks for you to skate on? (DID ANY OF THAT MAKE ANY SENSE?!)

    the sun sets at like 4:30 pm. It’s awful XD And the windchill is awful XD The Netherlands is incredibly flat (Whenever I need to describe it, I usually say imagine the flattest place you’ve ever been. It’s flatter than that.) And we live in an agricultural area with a lot of open plains, so the wind is something terrible.

    Yes, yes, yes! GIRL, you could be describing where I live!!! I looked up pictures of the Netherlands flatlands, and it looks like home! I didn’t know that anywhere else was as flat as we are. I describe it like a table-top, or the bottom of a pan.

    Yes the WIND. (OK, I love wind. Even when it’s cold and it feels like it’s slicing straight through you like a knife, you got to admire it for its power, even if it does hurt big time.)

    We should seriously consider taking this conversation to our emails or somewhere where we can rant about weather without boring others. XD I’m just so thrilled that somewhere else is flat, too.

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