Brit Reacts To HOW WE SHOWER & DO LAUNDRY WHEN ITS -74F! 

You've obviously never lived in a cold climate. When the temperature dives into arctic territory you're wise to keep your faucet dripping to prevent the pipes from bursting.

The water can freeze in the pipes and burst. In the winter in the US, some places, people are advised to open cabinets under sinks to let warm air hit the exposed pipes to warm it up and prevent bursts

I always hang laundry outside… and during winter, always have a chuckle when my nighties freeze and can just about can stand up by themselves. 😂 obviously, not as cold as Yakutia, but there is a definite sweet winter scent as the narrator mentions. And yes, Siberia is part of Russia.

I used to live out in the country and the major source of heat for my house was a wood stove. The house wasn't small either. It was a two story 3 bedroom, 2 bath house. The woodstove kept the house very comfortable in the winter, easy to maintain, and cheap. We just had to make sure we had a good supply of wood for the winter. I can't do it where I live now but I would happily go back to using a woodstove.

Our refrigerator stopped working during a cold snap and instantly my mom said "Put everything outside on the window ledge". It's not 3rd world if it works.."Well why not just buy a new one?". Because they are expensive. I think we lived most of a winter putting our perishables outside until she saved enough to buy a new one. But every day while that went on we would just open up the window and grab whatever we needed. And the food was just fine.

It's 87 F here & I'm shivering just looking at this. It is said that the Inuit Eskimos too experience one of the world's most extreme winter climates in certain parts of the world w-temperatures of 55 degrees below or colder. It may be nice for a quick visit, but every day of your life? It's said that summers in Siberia can reach 86 degrees -- quite the treat for sure. If you read about how & why people in these types of conditions do not have the basics you & I have, it's quite a learning experience. There's also info on ways to warm the pipes so that they do not freeze. These people surely are stronger & healthier than you or I -- no lack of exercise or junk food for them. Lots of interesting reading about this way of life that we know nothing of. The steam room to cold air is similar to what the Swedes do -- they go from a sauna or steam room then jump into the freezing ocean. It's long been known how healthy this is.

Here in Colorado people insulate garage pipes and even then sometimes their under sink pipes freeze. The amount of insulation they'd need wouldn't be worth it at all. The heat needed for a constant drip, could be from a lethal source. Great ideas in theory for some places in the in the world it's too cold. 😢

I live in New England. We have nights 15-20 below. It's not bad unless there's wind.

Ive had my pipes freeze and burst because of very very cold temps . But not as cold as Siberia or places like it. There is a way to heat the pipes actually.

They don't have running water because it's an extremely remote rural area in a very difficult climate. Even in the developed world, the most remote arctic settlements often don't have such amenities. *Major* (by arctic standards) settlements like Iqaluit (pop. > 7k) and Barrow (almost 5k) do, but the smaller and more remote settlements that can only be reached by bush plane or dogsled, often don't. Oymyakon has a population of fewer than 500 people, and there are entire mountain ranges between it and anything that could be called a city. Probably the only reason it's inhabited at all, is because it's on the road between (the settlement across the river from) Yakutsk, and the port of Magadan. Yakutsk, being the largest city north of the line of continuous permafrost, does need to be able to bring in supplies, so that road gets some traffic. Keeping pipes warm would be expensive. You either need crazy amounts of high-quality insulation, which would be a large up-front cost that a poor rural community cannot afford, or else you'd have an obscene heating bill on an ongoing basis. Yes, the water in the laundered clothes will freeze pretty much instantly when they're put outside; but at those temperatures, sublimation (the same phenomenon that causes freezer burn) will dry them out in a reasonable amount of time. (This isn't obvious from the phase diagram for water; but what you have to understand is that at those temperatures, the air is very very dry, so it hardly takes any vapor pressure at all to push water molecules into it. This is also why fire is such a big risk at really cold temperatures.) This part of Siberia has been governed by Russia since the seventeenth century. However, such remote communities as this would have relatively little interaction with the central government, and most of the population in small towns like this is of local origin (predominantly Yakut in this area, IIRC). A big city would have a larger percentage of its people of non-local origin (ethnic Russians and Ukrainians of course, but potentially also Cassacks, Turkic peoples, Jews, Manchurians, Han Chinese, and various others, depending on which city you're talking about).

Maybe this is a good answer for when Kabir keep asking why people don't move to the Alaskan wilderness and "live off the land".😁

When I was a child, my mom would hang wet sheets on the line in winter. She would caution me not to hit them because it broke the fibers.

Tp? Leaves or more snow or ice linen line to close to outhouse don't think its the refreshing scent of winter

This is in Yakutsk in Siberia. It actually gets quite warm there in the summer, with daily highs in July of about 26C / 79F

Kabir as somebody that lives in a trailer home I can tell you there is electrical tape that goes around your pipes and keeps them warm enough to have running water through them.

Like a Sauna which I love being part finnish

I noticed that while they don't have running water, they DO have satellite dishes on the house! lol

The clothes will be stiff as a board when you bring them in but are dry when they get warm

I’ve been waiting for you to react to this. It’s insane!

What a sweet little family

What do they do for the other 3 months? Where does the water come from?

The dad is a nuclear scientist.

I honestly yearn for this lifestyle…..

Pipes to where? They're in the middle of nowhere! Jesus Harold Christ...

The family looks like they're of some sort of Asian descent which makes me wonder if their ABCC11 gene is inactive like most East Asians. That would mean they have the dry ear wax and no body odor which should make not showering often easier on the noses. Besides with temperatures that cold, it's probably for the best not to bathe so much dince it'd dry out their skins more....m

Siberia is in Eastern Russia over 5000 miles from Moscow. I'm not sure where you're getting the idea that you need to lay thousands of miles of piping to get water there. Is the water they use in Scotland piped up from London? They don't have running water simply because the pipes would instantly freeze. There is no way to avoid this that isn't prohibitively expensive.

Russia and think of it they got nukes

I feel like Kabir and myself would be walking around smelly and dirty like the dirty kid from Charlie Brown

Wow. Siberia sucks as much as I thought it would.

Its always funny how when English people call -10 C unbearably cold. If its above 30F, -1 C, its still tee shirt weather.