Cold United

Dislike citing newspapers, as I prefer the original content, but… What a nice story The Boston Globe wrote about the life in the extreme weather conditions. In the article “Cold pushes life to the extremes,” the author describes pretty good all sides of such living in the cold…

And, hey, my Siberian city of Yakutsk was mentioned in it. Take a look.

..For further perspective, consider the Siberian city of Yakutsk, where it averaged 40 below zero last week.

Inna Likhachyova, who works at Tour Service Centre in Yakutsk, 3,000 miles east of Moscow, tittered at the idea of 22 below.

“If you plan to come here, you will need a fur hat, fur boots, two pairs of pants,’’ she said. “It is not cold for us, but you might have a different idea of what cold is.’’…

The story contains the video as well. So it is really worth to read.