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      10 months ago

      You’ve lived in Alaska for multiple winters and you aren’t worried about the problem with exposing small children to extreme cold?

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        10 months ago

        You should see how the Finnish treat their babies. Things like frostbite and frostnip don’t happen in the few seconds it takes to get from a car to a door. Yes, with small children, those 10 or 20 seconds might turn into 60, but they will be fine.

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        10 months ago

        A low temperature in Alaska will affect you MUCH differently than low temperatures in say, BC which is much more humid and cuts into my bones at -1 where in Alaska/Yukon I’ve handled -34 and I’m mostly struggling to breath.

        As long as it’s a quick jaunt into a heated facility, it should be fine with some moderate layers.

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          10 months ago

          These days I live in Washington, not quite as cold as BC but mostly similar. Previously, I have lived in the Northeast of the US and the Northeast of Japan, which are both humid and quite cold and windy in the winter.

          I know winter.