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> If it's -20 during the night you can either lock people up or collect their corpses in the morning. Or put floor heating under the streets like they did in
by skrebbel 2y ago
> If it's -20 during the night you can either lock people up or collect their corpses in the morning.
Or put floor heating under the streets like they did in Jyväskylä!
- jillesvangurp 2y agoI think that's more about keeping them ice free. There's a shopping street in Helsinki where they did that, I think. Anyway, sleeping rough in Jyväskylä sounds like it would be tough. Although you might have enough material (snow) to try to make an iglo. Some people do that for fun even. Of course technically if you make an iglo your home are you still homeless?
- skrebbel 2y agoI was told by locals that it was explicitly to keep homeless people from dying. A few streets in the center were heated. Like, not warm in any way, but it was kinda weird to walk into the center and suddenly all the snow was gone. Just warm enough for it all to thaw. Note, this was 20 years ago, maybe it all changed, either the system or the reasons. I can imagine that if you have a zero homeless strategy, it's weird to say that the street heating is for the homeless.
- jillesvangurp 2y ago> I was told by locals that it was explicitly My experience with Finnish people is that it can be hard to tell when they are joking and they have a dark sense of humor. Great poker players too.
- skrebbel 2y agoTrue! That said, I wasn't fooled. I'm very good at Finns. It might be incorrect but they believed it for sure :-)