Siberia "prepares for winter" The per capita grain storage is 500 kilograms, and vehicles also need to be prepared for war
It's winter, what's there to prepare for? ”
Not only me, but also many foreigners who had just arrived in Siberia had the same question, and early the next morning, I was taken to the "cruel" place of Siberia by a local friend.
On the road, one snowplow after another, behind them, was a group of turtle-like cars, each more than ten meters apart, ready for emergency braking.
The snowplow drove over, and the street lamp exploded with a "clang", which was after the street lamp was covered with snow, and was crushed by the snowplow, netizens said: Yakutsk was minus 51 degrees last night, and after more than nine hours of cold air, the snowplows of the entire city began to work, "holiday + suspension of classes = stay at home".
In Yakutsk, ordinary social life below -45 degrees Celsius will cease to exist, a large number of unrelated jobs will be "laid off", schools will be closed, and bus transportation will be reduced by 80%.
Seeing the frost on my head, my friend took me to a room where the bus was heated, and he showed it to me, which read: "This is the first bus stop in Russia with heating equipment installed on it, with temperature, driving directions and real-time location of buses."
There is also a radio in the carriage, and if something happens to the bus, you can call ** to help the person next to you, which is the custom in Yakutsk.
The super cold wave, which the locals named "Polar Vortex", means an extremely cold cyclone-type invasion, and the heavy snowfall is often accompanied by strong winds, so that all corners of the building are covered in ice and snow, and quickly freeze, which has a great impact on the daily life of residents.
My friend pointed to a residential building not far away, and I said, "It's not good, where there is air conditioning, there is a layer of frost, and where there is no air conditioning, there is also a layer of frost." ”
But I underestimated the Siberian cold, not only the walls were frozen, but the entire room was frozen, the walls, the handrails and the ceiling.
Once residents find themselves unable to open their windows, they will find ways to increase the electricity** in the hope that the walls and floors will melt sooner rather than later, so that they can normally go out the next day, but if the wind blows or the temperature continues to drop, the melted water will freeze again, and it is not known when they will be able to go out, so every family must stock up on enough food and fuel in a state of "war readiness".
In order to prevent the heating from entering the ground and causing collapse, each high-rise building with more than five floors must have at least 60 cm of thermal insulation, and someone must often clean the shield of the thermal insulation layer to ensure that the heat can be quickly discharged.
This is also why large Siberian cities like Yakutsk, with very poor infrastructure, high costs, long construction periods, and high maintenance costs, have dealt a great blow to the confidence of property developers and residents.
Because it is "war readiness", so the Russian Federation is very concerned about this, all kinds of resources from the Far East to China, will be transported by train to various transit stations more than a month before the arrival of winter, such as Yakutsk, the population of the city is only about 300,000, but the population of the surrounding towns has reached nearly one million, as soon as winter arrives, the surrounding villages can only rely on Yakutsk.
For example, the cousin of the train driver of the tour guide, after receiving the notice in July, has been traveling between the Far East and Yakutsk since August, transporting not only rice, flour, cooking oil, fruits, but also medicines, fuel, clothing and other necessities until the end of December, when the railway was closed.
By the way, most of the rice produced in the interior of Siberia is imported from the Far East, with the largest number of Chinese enterprises near Vladivostok, and so far more than 6 million hectares, or more than 4,000 square kilometers, are recorded, which is almost the size of the city of Wuxi.
Therefore, what preparations should city citizens make when they are "ready for war" in winter?
First of all, rice and cooking oil, because most people have three months of reserves, so they must apply to the community within two weeks, and pay a certain fee, and then issued by **, so that citizens can receive it in nearby places, such as potatoes, carrots, edible oil, pickles, seasonings, these things that can be stored for a long time can be booked.
Then there is meat, there is a large bazaar and several supermarkets in Yakutsk, which have venison, mutton, horse meat, and some wild animals such as snow rabbits and grouse, and there are many kinds of fish, there are cod and salmon, which are very cheap, each of which costs more than a thousand yuan, which is why the locals will ship the meat back, each with more than 500 catties.
Solve the supply problem, the next thing is to check the doors and windows, should be added, especially the windows, generally two to four layers, the outside to add a layer to prevent freezing, and finally to check the house's water, electricity, heat, heating pipelines, and finally to find a warm house, if there is heating, it would be better.
Because heated parking lots are expensive, costing an average of 800 to 1,000 per day, locals have to park their cars outdoors and wait at least an hour when they wake up in the morning with the heater on.
Of course, there are also those who do not stop the engine overnight, but this is rare, Russia has issued a gasoline allowance to the residents of Siberia, and more than ten liters of gasoline a day are driven for ordinary office workers, which is simply unbearable for ordinary office workers, not to mention the damage to the car when parked for a long time.
If it is a sudden snowstorm as mentioned above, it is useless if the engine goes out, and the vehicles driving outdoors will be covered with snow and ice, and even if the weather warms up, the parts inside will be soaked or frozen. According to local news reports, at least 1,200 "frozen cars" need to be overhauled in a year.
A lot of people are wondering, after winter, no one can go out and can't play, how do they spend seven months?
The tour guide and his friends gave the same answer: not being able to go out does not mean that they can't work, as long as there are networks, communications and other facilities, everyone can work at home, or contact a small local workshop, do a part-time job at home, most of the ** institutions and companies have winter subsidies, even if you don't do part-time, you can barely make ends meet.
They go out to play only one way, that is, shopping, and occasionally some parents take their children out for a walk while they are having fun, which is a Xi custom of the indigenous Siberians, who need to exercise their cold resistance and immunity.
In fact, a small Siberian city like Yakutsk has a lot of bars and entertainment facilities, but most of the time it will close early, after all, there are often many drunks on the street who are frozen, so they will keep patrolling the bars around the country, so that everyone can drink less and come back early.
Next, let's find out how Siberian villages and herders survive the winter.