Chile, 38, and I’ve been driving manual all of my life… Well, until a month ago when we finally sold my old trusty 2005 Yaris for a new automatic car so my wife can also drive (my old car was manual and had no drive assistance, it was heavy to turn, and I was the only one in my family that was capable of parallel parking it)

Oh yes!! Of course! Yet another standard!!

(What I learned from Reddit: there’s an XKCD for everything.)

Here in Santiago, capital of Chile, we are usually well tucked in our houses by July. We are located in a fairly dry zone, but close enough to the Andes mountains to have fresh water reserves for the biggest city in the country as long as the spare rains keep coming. Also, sky resorts thrive from April to September with all the fresh snow.

The current heat wave has thrown a lot of things out of whack. For starters, there’s currently no rain during a historically rainy month, which means that future water reserves might be low. Current ones are no better since melting snow is muddying our current reserves and shortages of public water supply are a possibility. Yes, watching green mountains in July is beautiful, but also the sky resorts are getting worried about their seasonal income (they are all pivoting into trekking and sightseeing, but that’s not nearly as popular).