The Coldest Permanently Inhabited Place On Earth

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Founded by Mongols in the time of Ghengis Kahn, the town of Oymyakon is the coldest permanently inhabited place on earth.
A visit to the coldest town on Earth - Boing Boing
A Welsh View: Oymyakon - The Coldest Permanently Inhabited Place On Earth

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And I thought it was the town 3 miles east of here.

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My coldest experience I ever had was when I had my family of 30 go to Barrie Ontario Canada during Presidents week. We stopped to spend a few hours to see the almost fully Frozen Niagara Falls. I have never in my life felt cold like that. -30 , as the mist from the falls came down it would bounce out as ice and hit you in the face. The pain even with the mask was something I will never forget nor will the beauty of seeing it all frozen around the falls.
Barrie was actually not bad in fact the day after we arrived we were put side in T shirts smoking Cigars while NY was getting hit with what just left Canada like close to 30 inch's of Snow. I will see if I can find a picture of it to post here.

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My coldest experience I ever had was when I had my family of 30 go to Barrie Ontario Canada during Presidents week. We stopped to spend a few hours to see the almost fully Frozen Niagara Falls. I have never in my life felt cold like that. -30 , as the mist from the falls came down it would bounce out as ice and hit you in the face. The pain even with the mask was something I will never forget nor will the beauty of seeing it all frozen around the falls.
Barrie was actually not bad in fact the day after we arrived we were put side in T shirts smoking Cigars while NY was getting hit with what just left Canada like close to 30 inch's of Snow. I will see if I can find a picture of it to post here.

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Big Frank, thanks for posting these. I grew up in NF and got used to the weather (that's why I am here in Michigan with the same crappy stuff )For your info, we now have nearly 6 feet of snow on ground here in Cadillac and more coming this week (wet stuff). I find it interesting that when Buffalo gets snow, the world hears about it, but when Niagara Falls (or Cadillac, Michigan) gets buried, people say "where is that?" I have seen the Falls freeze solid several times (one could walk over it, and many did) and I have seen Terrapin Point collapse. I remember when the tower on the US side was the only one in the area, and I remember when the springs above the Whirlpool were not classified "the deadliest water on earth" and concreted over. I remember when Dad drove garbage truck (as a volunteer) during the garbage strike that buried drums of Hooker Chemicals in the Love Canal (just a mile or so from our house). Yes times have changed, and thanks for renewing some of the good times. They haven't all been good.