winter is coming. are you prepared for the power to go out?
>Angry Ukrainians took to the streets and blocked roads Tuesday as hundreds of thousands remain without heating at a time when temperatures are plunging
>Opposition lawmaker Oleh Lyashko said last week that at least six towns with a combined population over 1 million remain without heating. apnews.com/8031657791224faca098d99999f8db6f
>Natural gas prices surged to a more than four-year high in panicky and volatile trading Wednesday, after the latest cold weather forecasts raised fears that the U.S. is heading for a potentially colder-than-expected winter with too little gas supply.
>"Overnight, there was another round of cold trends, and that kind of lit the fuse and everything exploded," said Jacob Meisel, chief weather analyst at Bespoke Weather Services. "Some of the later overnight weather models trended much colder...the six to 10 and 11 to 15 day [forecasts] both saw rather significant cold trends. It wasn't like we were looking at periods of very major sustained warming. We've just been continually trending colder and colder."
>Just a few weeks ago, the market was expecting warmer weather for November and natural gas was trading at less than $3 in September. "This cold is widespread and goes deep into the heart of Texas and across the Midwest and Northeast," said John Kilduff, partner with Again Capital. "The extent and breadth of it caught the market off guard
>Government data last week showed the amount of natural gas in U.S. storage facilities rose by 65 billion cubic feet to 3.208 trillion cubic feet, 15 percent below the year-ago level and 16 percent below the five-year average. That was also the lowest amount of gas in storage during a first week of November, since 2003
>>Analysts said gas in storage fell as hot weather lingered into October, resulting in higher air conditioning use. Unlike other years, there was no break between air conditioning and heating use.
>Some analysts say U.S. exports are adding to the storage shortfall. The U.S.exports gas in the form of liquified natural gas on ships, as well as via pipeline, to Mexico.
>With Sunspot Activity Nearing Record Lows, Scientists See Bitter Winters Ahead
>"We see a cooling trend," Martin Mlynczak of NASA's Langley Research Center said in late September. "High above Earth's surface, near the edge of space, our atmosphere is losing heat energy. If current trends continue, it could soon set a Space Age record for cold." sputniknews.com/science/201811131069777647-Sunspot-Activity-Record-Low-Bitter-Winters
>Drought Beats Cold as Threat to Europe Power Supply This Winter
>Low river levels have already forced Electricite de France SA to cut production at some nuclear stations and are choking coal supplies to power plants in Germany.
>In the Nordic region, one of the driest and warmest summers ever means hydro power supply levels are struggling to recover. Water is the lifeblood for the region’s electricity production, with about half of the region’s demand met with hydro power.
>The deficit in hydro reserves stands at 6.2 terawatt-hours today and is forecast to widen to 10 terawatt-hours in two weeks time
I can bump it by myself, and I appreciate your help :)
David Phillips
MFW the demographics in the UK are so skewed that one harsh winter will kill enough white elderly people to make most cities majority-minority by springtime
Can poles change so significantly, that Russia becomes warm and Africa freezes?
Aaron Ramirez
>winter is coming. are you prepared for the power to go out?
I bought multiple electric fan heaters. I'm ready!
Angel Perry
>no one cares about ukraine at all anymore Jow Forums is truly too far gone, 90% of the user base probably don't even remember the clankening, or tanks in 30 minutes
Jonathan Carter
yah it's depressing...it's always been more noise than signal but /nupol/ is especially noisy
Brayden Richardson
It's probably too far gone to recover at this stage, all people care about is domestic issues from their own country, and not important geopolitical issues like this.
Christian Williams
What tools would one need to create sustainable warmth in an apartment in a city without dieing from carbon monoxide
Dominic Johnson
a propane space heater or something, unless your apartment has a fireplace kek
Noah Howard
more clothes
Juan Gray
it's all right, it's a free for all. people can post in degeneracy threads and ecelebs, etc., and others of us can post geopolitics
for starters, bundle up. layers of warm clothing (wool), layers of socks, warm hat, etc. I bought wool blankets too
additionally, consider the risks of living in a city, especially when infrastructure fails. stores may not have food, people will be desperate, in chemical withdrawal, freezing? starving? if you have heat and food and your neighbors don't, you will almost certainly be raided
best to get out of the city
John Young
I want to leave so bad but the furthest I can go is the suburbs
Noah Sanchez
suburbs is an improvement but may still fail
you CAN go further, but it may involve some difficulty. housing prices/rent in the countryside are generally lower than suburbs and cities. you can find another job...work online? maybe group together with friends or relatives. that will be helpful defending your property too, if it comes to it
if the power fails long enough you won't be worried about paying rent. you just need a fireplace, a food/water supply, and other basic essentials (warm clothing, etc.)
Nah, got the Gulf Stream ennit. Been dawn t beach tday.
Colton Clark
I don't get my license back for half a year. I can't move without retaining my job but I have to stay withing biking distance of my work. I just hope to God I make it through the winter. I'm scrambling to get to the burbs before the cold hits. I have a bad feeling that food won't be getting restocked and other people are gonna chimp out hard.
Colton James
>UK weather forecast: Nation enjoys LAST days of warm jetstream before sudden COLD STRIKES
>UK long range weather forecast: Winter 2018 to be COLDEST for years as El Nino hits
>METEOROLOGISTS say an “imminent” El Nino event is on its way, meaning winter could be bleaker, weeks after long range weather forecasts revealed we may facing the coldest winter of 10 years in the UK
What exactly did they get for declaring independence? Oh wait they were already independent with elections right around the corner init?
Alexander Howard
You’ll be fine. Just order pizza.
Dominic Cook
It was -5 this time two years ago. Today it was 13 degrees. I’m fine with winter being cold anyway, plus I’m in the south west which never gets that bad. I have a really big bag of pasta if the worst comes to the worst.
Joshua Baker
I wanna hate you guys but I know your country hates you enough for all of us. Hopefully you can figure out your refugee issues.
why can't you get a new job? start a business? sell stuff online that you make. you'd be surprised the value of your labor when you don't have a boss/corporation extracting the lion's share of it.
>I have a bad feeling that food won't be getting restocked and other people are gonna chimp out hard.
right. terrorism is coming too. cities are no place to be. soon
>Iranian-Backed ‘Sleeper Cell’ Militants...poised to launch a large-scale attack on the American homeland
>Sharafat Ali Khan, while acknowledging his guilt, denied he was the main smuggler, and said he was surprised he’s the only person arrested and prosecuted in the ring, which investigators said helped more than 100 illegal immigrants from Pakistan and Afghanistan sneak into the U.S.
>“We saw the future of this threat in Brussels and Paris,” said the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, adding that future attacks will be on “an order of magnitude greater”
Nah, I remember it being bitter cold from like October to February. Maybe not -5 but it was bloody cold for months.
Carter Myers
it certainly wasn't that cold for that long where i am back then.
Christopher Nguyen
Reminder: Don't use camping stoves indoors unless you want to die.
Wear layers. If you are overheating, you are sweating. If you're sweating, you're destroying the insulating ability of your clothing and asking for ice to form on your skin.
BUY SOME LONG JOHNS. Nobody is going to fucking see them anyway, so you can shove the part about them being against your delicate sensibilities up your ass and buy a pair. Pride is worth a hell of a lot less than not getting frostbite on your balls.
Wear a fucking hat. I don't care if it has a rim or not. I care that it covers your head.
Sebastian Jones
That's good news. I can tolerate the cold it's tolerateing those who can't that worries me.
Andrew Myers
COTTON IS USELESS during winter. Don't wear it. It gets wet and turns to ice on your flesh. No cotton shirts. No cotton pants. No cotton socks. No cotton underwear.
NO COTTON.
Josiah Gutierrez
Don't hold in your piss when it's cold. Your body will spend a lot more energy heating you up if your bladder is full. Replenish frequently with warm liquids. You'll get really good at signing your name by the end.
Do you need to be using your fingers? If the answer to this at any given moment is "No", then you had better be wearing mittens, then. For extreme cold, you want mittens that go up to right around your elbow. You put the mittens on after the last non-jacket layer and then put the jacket layer on top of the mittens. This prevents you from easily losing body heat from there.
BOOTS is another place people really fuck up when it comes to cold weather. They walk around with steel toed boots and lose toes. They wear COTTON SOCKS and then lose their feet. Here's what you want to do if you like being able to count to 20: Synthetic fiber socks on your feet with at least one layer of thick wool socks on top. You want this going at least halfway up calf, btw. Ankle high boots are a great way to lose a foot. The boot should be one barleycorn larger than your normal shoe size, maybe even two if you're going to be wearing multiple layers of thick wool socks. Boots with detachable liners are great, because you can clean the inside easily and dry/warm it up at camp. Again, no steel toe and make sure you lace it all the way to the top, but not too tight. Constricted feet are cold feet.
Jace Evans
>Reminder: Don't use camping stoves indoors unless you want to die. Thanks leafanon. Does this include the ones that use the little gas canisters?
Gavin Russell
Especially.
Bentley Mitchell
Lucky for you that you can shoot them :D
Ayden Evans
Looks awesome, not a single brown person. Can’t wait!
