Okay first I live their and it's not a frigid igloo town!!! Their building many places to do things like we know have the largest rec park in Canada water park n everthingntheir is actually a lot to do jeer u just gotta find it pluss it's actually not that cold I walk to schoolnand i live their.
how is that car still running?! I would have guessed that it would have problems at that temp. Do you do something in Canada that we in the Southern US don't to help prevent freezing in temps that low? I would imagine anti-freeze can only do so much.
@chrisz71 block heaters. or parked in doors. after the vehicle is started give them a while to warm up. the anti freeze will warm up and it should be fine
Waaw i am freking out ,,i am moving to fort mc the coming week and i am thinking to cancel my pain tickets ,, i live in montreal right now and is already to cold in winter ,,i am not sure a can go colder ..
I was in Elk Point on the rigs in the 80's -78c with the wind-chill added , we were using tiger torches on ourselves. I grew up in the Mac. The wind doesn't blow too much. Still is cold though.
i was workin in the suncor plaNT THAT DAY DOING HYDRO TESTS ON A PIPE WE were gona drill into... 6" gate valve blew three times i worked 16hr out side that day.. ya it was fuck'n cold
I don't get it when people say that we shouldn't be in Alberta drilling for oil.Isn't the reason it's there is the reason we should extract it and make use of it. I know for a fact that oil has many uses; fuel,manufacturing,energy,etc.But other forms of energy I am not too sure of.The CO2= catastrophe thing is just a form of propaganda intending on scaring the masses back to the stone age.Even if we did everything the environmentalists say we should do;they would still bitch!!
Its normal, the summers are pretty hot, the winters are fucking cold. Good non-mountain snowboarding here but there is also a lot of drugs, but who cares lol
Coldest I remember in ft mac was -53 without the windchill. Saw the craziest northern lights that winter too just before I left for home for Christmas.
Huh, this is pretty sick cold. I live in Sweden. my town is in the same latitude as 60 km north of Fort Chipewyan (N60degress16minutes), or 280 km north of Fort McMurray... And our winters are usually average temp -2 C, or as coldest -21 C....Summers well over +30 C. I guess we should thank the Gulf Stream for that!
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We should all be held accountable for our carbon footprints. The AB gov't and the oil companies admit that the oil sands are polluting the environment, and they can't even predict the long term consequences of all this, very sad. The toxic chemicals that leach into the groundwater will eventually get into all the rivers, lakes and yes, even your drinking water. So enjoy the money now, cause after the oil sands have destroyed it all, all that money wont mean a thing.
do you even know what they do up here? i have lived in this very area for my entire life, i have worked in the fields, i have worked off the fields, i have friends that do eviro work for the petroleum companies up here. your precious little solar power arrays are actually damaging the environment more than the oil comps. the solar arrays are built using the items that the oil companies produce, and they do not return the area to the way it was, the oil comps do. check into to land reclamation
Well I agree they pollute, but it's not about a carbon footprint. There is no definitive link between CO2 emissions and climate change, it's scientific rhetoric really. The pollution we should be worried about are the effluents pumped into streams/rivers/ground and sulfur dioxides...the toxins, not the "greenhouse gases". And you make a good point...what good is money if you can't enjoy nature...what does the beauty of nature cost?
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People who work in the oil sands are greedy, why would you need 150k or more a year. I hope in ten years when our environment is shot to hell your all still there cause there is gunna be hell to pay. And all you ignorant people who knew the consequences of helping to exploit the oil sands will definitely be held accountable.
You know what pal ??? Anyone who works up north in the oilsands are not greedy, they are simply earning above average wages in working conditions and extreme environments that 90% of the rest of the workforce wouldn't be able to do !!!
well lets look @ it this way..we as canadians can work the oil feilds and make a decent liveing and set up out kids for whatever they want tobe...or we can become hippys in witch case the oil companys hire from outside the country and the moneys get's sent back "home" to mexico/jamica/russia ect...not into our local economy's..you know..the ones that fund enviromental reserch...
@grimlx3 Apparently one does not need a high school diploma to work on site! Site workers are over paid! I've met a lot of dumb fucks in Fort McMurray! Several factors that causes problems by idiots working on site is the age and mentality of these people. They make to much money so they buy big ass trucks and show off by squealing the tires, running their stupid uneducated mouth shouting at pedestrians. Yeah, in Alberta the kids don't need much education so no wonder why Harper got a majority!
What do we run our cars on? Where are we suppose to get this oil from??? Half of the oil in Canada comes oil sands. The days of oil coming from wells in Canada are becoming less and less. The wells that are drilled in AB are mainly gas.
Go check out Elkford coal, then Sparwood (Fording Coal) and Highland Valley Copper 14 miles West of Logan Lake BC. It gets cold, but not insane cold like in Northern Alberta
like any of that matters when your a 14 year old who doesn't have a job. and besides, the price of housing and everything else is so high the amount of money hardly matters anyways.
i am 25 years old, i make about 140g's a year, so what if you pay over a thousand bucks a month for rent. do the math, you are still way better of here then anywhere else
this guy i know has a live out allowance because he put his brothers name under it and he doesnt have to pay rent he works as much as he can he makes 250g's
hi, i cant find work as a plumber here in montana. where is the best place to work in the oil industry there? the work camp would help save money eh? thanks
Thanks! I have been looking but I guess the roads melt in summer? Crazy! I'll keep looking for a work camp job as the rent in Mc Murray is really expensive. I'd have to leave my wife, home and dogs on this beautiful mountain but I did it before in the military.
Have a great week end! I'm going to go dig for some gold! Found some nice flakes yesterday.
The foreman I talked to was saying the roads up north were melted and the trucks cant run on them at the moment. LOL, I know Ft. McMurray is a modern city. It looks pretty tempting. I'm going to go ninja dredge a creek today. Wish me luck. If i find the big one, I wont have to work!
lol thats fucking funny. In alberta to get to these work sites for the oil & gas industry your traveling on dirt roads to get into the woods for the wells, so what he means by the roads "melting" is that in the spring those roads arnt paved, there dirt, so you get stuck easily in the during the spring. The spring months are called "Break up" it only lasts about a month or 2 then you get right back at er.
@Fesspoilu you know if someone has lived in Fort McMurray if you think -23C is a heatwave and you know the four seasons: Winter, Still Winter, Almost Winter, and Construction!
fuckin EH!
noftchks1 2 months ago
Fort Mac = Shithole.
DoubleDion97 2 months ago
@TheMaple19 they should invest in better English teachers. Your grammar is god awful.
sellyintegra 11 months ago
Okay first I live their and it's not a frigid igloo town!!! Their building many places to do things like we know have the largest rec park in Canada water park n everthingntheir is actually a lot to do jeer u just gotta find it pluss it's actually not that cold I walk to schoolnand i live their.
TheMaple19 1 year ago
hireing ??
darren107 1 year ago
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I moved to this city from BC and IT IS the BIGGEST piece of SHIT town I've evr seen. What the fuck is there to do?
When the oil sands shut down, theres gonna be nothing left in that town what so ever. Then fort mc will be nothing more than a ghost town.
redspecial27 1 year ago
(cue french/albertan hick accent):
"It's freaking COLD" lmao
tomczyce 1 year ago
@tomczyce actually, coming from a person who has lived in Fort Mcmurray for about 9 years, he's not an Albertan (: he's a Newfoundlander, i think.
StarzzColiideeexD 11 months ago
@StarzzColiideeexD No, he's most definitely francophone.
cuvautoofficial 2 months ago
that will happen!!
mihalcheon2008 1 year ago
that will happen!
mihalcheon2008 1 year ago
Fuck i'm not happy to be working outdoor in the mines this winter...spouse to be even colder then regurler
johnplayersstandard 1 year ago
@johnplayersstandard Would you like to buy some handwarmers? I imported tons of them . $125 for a box of 250 pairs. message me.
Gwhat1935 1 year ago
so glad i don't live there anymore.
mooonbrains 1 year ago
how is that car still running?! I would have guessed that it would have problems at that temp. Do you do something in Canada that we in the Southern US don't to help prevent freezing in temps that low? I would imagine anti-freeze can only do so much.
chrisz71 1 year ago
@chrisz71 block heaters. or parked in doors. after the vehicle is started give them a while to warm up. the anti freeze will warm up and it should be fine
ehbra 1 year ago
cool
Iam18yearsolddddd 1 year ago
i hate the winters here, do you remember when it got to -55? now THAT was cold! i swear my "boys" retracted into my stomach.
WiredrawnMurder45 1 year ago
i lived there last year.....i drove from phoenix arizona to ft mc alberta
14jstorm 1 year ago
Waaw i am freking out ,,i am moving to fort mc the coming week and i am thinking to cancel my pain tickets ,, i live in montreal right now and is already to cold in winter ,,i am not sure a can go colder ..
MsMaryammm 1 year ago
I think this guy drives bus now...haha
johnplayersstandard 1 year ago
Wow, not that is cold!!
MegaTraveling 1 year ago
i miss fort mac my family lives there still but damn im 15 and i gotta get back u digg
jamesbeck123456789 2 years ago
i love fort mc murray when its cold i dont no why i just like it
albertaCAWS 2 years ago
@albertaCAWS It's warm now mate Is melting
Cadet1199 2 years ago
Extreme cold. Only real men love it and learn to work in it. Survivorman every day, unless you're union.
kegdomdan 2 years ago
PUT A JACKET ON!!!
EthanCamil 2 years ago
I live in ft. mcmurray,Its FREEEAAAAZINGGG!
jchaytor 2 years ago 2
my home town , i miss it
captainbigmac 2 years ago
I was in Elk Point on the rigs in the 80's -78c with the wind-chill added , we were using tiger torches on ourselves. I grew up in the Mac. The wind doesn't blow too much. Still is cold though.
blackdogleg 2 years ago
i was workin in the suncor plaNT THAT DAY DOING HYDRO TESTS ON A PIPE WE were gona drill into... 6" gate valve blew three times i worked 16hr out side that day.. ya it was fuck'n cold
JFICJFIC 2 years ago
near wood buffalo feb 08 -57 celsius core drrilling.most rigs froze up along with vac truck etc alot of steamming going on for a week.
wrbowcal 2 years ago
-56 in lac de gras feb 2007
swamper111 2 years ago
pas pir mon jos.....
swamper111 2 years ago
the coldest it ever got in edmonton was -41!
Bearry143 2 years ago
I was in Nisku at -49 feb 08
Badlamshade 2 years ago
I don't get it when people say that we shouldn't be in Alberta drilling for oil.Isn't the reason it's there is the reason we should extract it and make use of it. I know for a fact that oil has many uses; fuel,manufacturing,energy,etc.But other forms of energy I am not too sure of.The CO2= catastrophe thing is just a form of propaganda intending on scaring the masses back to the stone age.Even if we did everything the environmentalists say we should do;they would still bitch!!
spernoadversa 2 years ago 3
whats life like there?
jigglyfidda125 2 years ago
hmmm like that!
ifarted9876 2 years ago
Its normal, the summers are pretty hot, the winters are fucking cold. Good non-mountain snowboarding here but there is also a lot of drugs, but who cares lol
Univ3rsalF3ar 2 years ago 3
Coldest I remember in ft mac was -53 without the windchill. Saw the craziest northern lights that winter too just before I left for home for Christmas.
ThinkTankExperiment 2 years ago
Huh, this is pretty sick cold. I live in Sweden. my town is in the same latitude as 60 km north of Fort Chipewyan (N60degress16minutes), or 280 km north of Fort McMurray... And our winters are usually average temp -2 C, or as coldest -21 C....Summers well over +30 C. I guess we should thank the Gulf Stream for that!
Johanoeberg 2 years ago
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We should all be held accountable for our carbon footprints. The AB gov't and the oil companies admit that the oil sands are polluting the environment, and they can't even predict the long term consequences of all this, very sad. The toxic chemicals that leach into the groundwater will eventually get into all the rivers, lakes and yes, even your drinking water. So enjoy the money now, cause after the oil sands have destroyed it all, all that money wont mean a thing.
cashout007 3 years ago
do you even know what they do up here? i have lived in this very area for my entire life, i have worked in the fields, i have worked off the fields, i have friends that do eviro work for the petroleum companies up here. your precious little solar power arrays are actually damaging the environment more than the oil comps. the solar arrays are built using the items that the oil companies produce, and they do not return the area to the way it was, the oil comps do. check into to land reclamation
pyro5050 3 years ago 3
Well I agree they pollute, but it's not about a carbon footprint. There is no definitive link between CO2 emissions and climate change, it's scientific rhetoric really. The pollution we should be worried about are the effluents pumped into streams/rivers/ground and sulfur dioxides...the toxins, not the "greenhouse gases". And you make a good point...what good is money if you can't enjoy nature...what does the beauty of nature cost?
ThinkTankExperiment 2 years ago 3
It was -46 here a couple weeks ago !!
TaigaClips 3 years ago
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People who work in the oil sands are greedy, why would you need 150k or more a year. I hope in ten years when our environment is shot to hell your all still there cause there is gunna be hell to pay. And all you ignorant people who knew the consequences of helping to exploit the oil sands will definitely be held accountable.
cashout007 3 years ago
Don't Hate the Players Man, Hate the Game !!!!
DeerHuntR 3 years ago
You know what pal ??? Anyone who works up north in the oilsands are not greedy, they are simply earning above average wages in working conditions and extreme environments that 90% of the rest of the workforce wouldn't be able to do !!!
DeerHuntR 3 years ago 2
Should you not be held accountable for driving a car, and buying stuff made from plastic?
ufloetz 3 years ago
well lets look @ it this way..we as canadians can work the oil feilds and make a decent liveing and set up out kids for whatever they want tobe...or we can become hippys in witch case the oil companys hire from outside the country and the moneys get's sent back "home" to mexico/jamica/russia ect...not into our local economy's..you know..the ones that fund enviromental reserch...
grimlx3 3 years ago 11
@grimlx3 Apparently one does not need a high school diploma to work on site! Site workers are over paid! I've met a lot of dumb fucks in Fort McMurray! Several factors that causes problems by idiots working on site is the age and mentality of these people. They make to much money so they buy big ass trucks and show off by squealing the tires, running their stupid uneducated mouth shouting at pedestrians. Yeah, in Alberta the kids don't need much education so no wonder why Harper got a majority!
thecanadianstoner1 3 months ago
All Stephen Harper has to do to get a majority vote is to pull the wool over the eyes of dumb fucks in Alberta.
thecanadianstoner1 3 months ago
What do we run our cars on? Where are we suppose to get this oil from??? Half of the oil in Canada comes oil sands. The days of oil coming from wells in Canada are becoming less and less. The wells that are drilled in AB are mainly gas.
ufloetz 3 years ago
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predbrett03 3 years ago
I lived in fort mcmurray for years.
The coldest I've seen was -64 with wind chill in late january of 2002
The entire town was like a ghost town that day
forgedeath 3 years ago
I have seen -80C with windchill in southern Sask. I went to work that day on a rig.
ufloetz 3 years ago
lowest i've experienced in fort mack was -33C
taa86 3 years ago
Coldest I have eperienced last year in Fort Mac was -55 early February..Sofar it's -46 couple of days ago...no need for gum its fresh enough
geeq13 3 years ago
Go check out Elkford coal, then Sparwood (Fording Coal) and Highland Valley Copper 14 miles West of Logan Lake BC. It gets cold, but not insane cold like in Northern Alberta
sparwood8 3 years ago
I've seen it -49 there.
sparwood8 3 years ago
maybe -52 with the chill. I was 100KM northwest of ft.mac and the coldest i seen is -46
sparchewsky 3 years ago
Making 50 bucks an hour to run equipment in subzero temperatures is better than scenic beauty and unemployment on the east coast.
melissawilton 3 years ago 4
I have NEVER heard of a person who likes fort mcmurray :P there is no attraction at all whatsoever. Exxcept the SUMMER weather. that's nice
emmaloo9393 3 years ago
So finding a job that pays $25-$35 an hour very easily isnt a good thing? or making upwards of $45 an hour as a tradesman isnt either?
AlexJamesForsey 3 years ago
like any of that matters when your a 14 year old who doesn't have a job. and besides, the price of housing and everything else is so high the amount of money hardly matters anyways.
emmaloo9393 3 years ago
Well think, housing is about the same in such cities as Calgary and Vancouver and Toronto anyways, but you make $10-$20 less as a Journeyman!
AlexJamesForsey 3 years ago
i am 25 years old, i make about 140g's a year, so what if you pay over a thousand bucks a month for rent. do the math, you are still way better of here then anywhere else
bootybandit6 3 years ago 3
this guy i know has a live out allowance because he put his brothers name under it and he doesnt have to pay rent he works as much as he can he makes 250g's
IusePR 3 years ago
Do you think you're the only one who knows anything about Fort Crack?
Do you also think buddy here wants you telling everyone how much he makes?
launchpaad88 3 years ago
What you do there ? and how did you get a job there .
Thanks for the help.
andrewcobra2000 3 years ago
hi, i cant find work as a plumber here in montana. where is the best place to work in the oil industry there? the work camp would help save money eh? thanks
nick
whitefish mt
STORM6490MT 3 years ago 3
Id apply anywhere up here and then move something better for you.
AlexJamesForsey 3 years ago
Thanks! I have been looking but I guess the roads melt in summer? Crazy! I'll keep looking for a work camp job as the rent in Mc Murray is really expensive. I'd have to leave my wife, home and dogs on this beautiful mountain but I did it before in the military.
Have a great week end! I'm going to go dig for some gold! Found some nice flakes yesterday.
nick
STORM6490MT 3 years ago 2
Haha the roads do not melt!
This is a normal city with normal roads.
AlexJamesForsey 3 years ago 4
The foreman I talked to was saying the roads up north were melted and the trucks cant run on them at the moment. LOL, I know Ft. McMurray is a modern city. It looks pretty tempting. I'm going to go ninja dredge a creek today. Wish me luck. If i find the big one, I wont have to work!
STORM6490MT 3 years ago
lmao shut the fuck up
Immrbracken 3 years ago
lol thats fucking funny. In alberta to get to these work sites for the oil & gas industry your traveling on dirt roads to get into the woods for the wells, so what he means by the roads "melting" is that in the spring those roads arnt paved, there dirt, so you get stuck easily in the during the spring. The spring months are called "Break up" it only lasts about a month or 2 then you get right back at er.
watermb1 2 years ago
I live in Fort ac, and we just got hit by a 4 day snowstorm, snow drifts are 10 feet deep!
hamelzz 3 years ago
i no it was crazy there was like more snow then, than all winter
YimYum 3 years ago
@hamelzz Holy crap i commented on this two years ago. Sick.
hamelzz 1 year ago
Ouaille, disons qui faisait pomal FRETTE !!!
Fesspoilu 4 years ago
Fortmcmurray raid!
with anonymous...bring your freinds and no ID also bring a mask! message me for details!!!
ANONYMOUS12334455 4 years ago
i know where your comin from, born and raised in Fort Mac
captainbigmac 4 years ago
En Québéquois on dit que c`est FRETT!!!!
stephane7325 4 years ago
fort crack is wicked, dont mind him fess.
that shits wicked.
makes me proud to say im a newfie, up on the mainland.
newfiesown 4 years ago
the big attraction there is money
Mark2Jetta 4 years ago
-52 in Fort McMurray makes me glad I'm in Michigan.
Compared to Fort McMurray, it's a heat wave in southern Alberta. USA Today said Calgary's high today was expected to be -3 F.
LJMmack 4 years ago 2
-52 degrees? I would never want to live in Ft. McMurray.
I hear many people like Ft. McMurray. What's the big attraction there? It certainly can't be the weather.
RCmack 4 years ago
money.
AlexJamesForsey 4 years ago
can't forget about the women, theres tons of joobies here
importcamel03 3 years ago
I am wondering what is more Gay, that laugh or some1 who play a Cube all night long
Fesspoilu 4 years ago
@Fesspoilu you know if someone has lived in Fort McMurray if you think -23C is a heatwave and you know the four seasons: Winter, Still Winter, Almost Winter, and Construction!
WiredrawnMurder45 1 year ago
gay laugh
ETF3d 4 years ago