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Originally Posted by bailie  ive been told that in canada they have buldings under ground[ below their houses] to cope with the severe weather, is this true, if its not i apologise  , and how do you cope with heating , i ask because the oil and gas here is a shocking price, and some people have died because they cud not afford the heat, it gets at worst here - 9. and when there is a skif of snow the whole country is at a stand still |
Most houses here in Canada have basements, if that's what you're talking about! It has nothing to do with coping with weather though, because the ground freezes anyway! As Judylynne said, we have natural gas heating, although some places just have electric heat but THAT is expensive! Even if gas bills are not paid, they can not turn off your heat completely (at least here in Saskatchewan!) because pipes will freeze and burst. Our bills are about the same as Judylynne's and we have two furnaces for our 2.5 storey house (one for basement and main floor, one for second and top floor!)
I met some guys at a hotel in Mexico, and they were from California and they had run down to Mexico after it got down to almost freezing where they were from. We told them there was a blizzard back home and it was -50 degrees Celsius with windchill. One guy said he couldn't stand that, he went to Michigan once and he was so cold. His friend said "Yeah but that's just Michigan, these people are from CANADA!" because you know as soon as you step over that magical border it's a frozen wasteland up here
