Inside the eerie town where residents live underground to escape killer 55C heat | World | News
Although Brits is fighting to keep cool in the last few weeks during the last heat wave that holds most of the UK, dreaming of waking up to 55C for weeks, not just a few days, not only a few days, but at a low 30s. This is the truth for residents living in a remote Australian region. Here, the temperatures are usually so severe in summer, almost all community has been underground.
Welcome to Coober Pedy in Southern Australia, which transforms from the indigenous term, which means “white man in a hole”. At first glance, the scattering of low -rise buildings and dusty roads seems almost abandoned. However, under the scorched red world, a secret world lies in a secret world where most of the town’s 1,500 inhabitants live and live in work and sleep.
In 1915, Coobber Pedy was found in the region, which attracted miners from Australia and hopes to secure a reserve. However, when summer temperatures usually reached 55C, early settlers quickly realized that traditional houses would not cut it.
The solution was to create houses known as “shelters”, where the temperature remained much more comfortable all year round, and to dig on the hills. Today, for churches, bars, an art gallery and even tourists who want to experience underground life for themselves, hotels can be carved into the rock that takes refuge from the relentless sun above.
The 38 -year -old Sabrina Troisi moved to Stuttgart in 2013, from Germany to Coobber Pedy, her husband Nick, the last Thomas and her daughter Leah, 13.’s unique property, average more affordable than $ 796,000, average $ 796,000 (£ 382,000). The unusual family house hidden about four meters below the rocks has two living rooms, two bathrooms and even one pool.
“Walking to our house is walking only one hill,” he said, ” Mirror.
“Living underground is much cheaper than the ground. This is cheaper because you don’t need to heat or cool the rooms, and you just need lights inside.” “Since the roof is already there, renting or buying shelters is much cheaper, you are tunnel on the hill to make just a building.”
For MS Troisi, the best part of underground life should be peace and quiet. He said: “There is no external noise. When you close the door, everything disappears. It is completely dark, completely quiet, perfect for sleeping. I love sleeping underground.
“I wake up in the morning without windows, so you don’t actually look at the windows and see how the weather is like, like any other person. But you assume that there is normally a nice weather in Coober Pedy, so there’s not much rain here. We get five to 10 rain events a year. So you probably leave your umbrella at home.”
In some neighborhoods, the only symptom of life is the ventilation shaft that sticks to the ground. These shafts provide a sufficient oxygen source and allow the moisture to escape. This is because the houses should be at least four meters deep to prevent the collapse of the roofs.
Surprisingly, shelters are intact without structural support, which makes it possible to carving high ceilings in any way. Working at the Tourist Information Center, Barry Lewis said, “You can draw it with a facade knife or nail,” Kaya said. BBC In 2023.
The houses are also incredibly economical. The town produces its own electricity, which is strengthened by wind and solar energy.
“When we go on vacation and stay in hotels, they noticed every small noise, roosters, planes, anything.” “Underground, you don’t hear anything.”
Coober Pedy has no unique shortage of attraction. Visitors can visit the town’s opal mines, slope grave and several underground churches, including the Serbian Serbian Serbian Orthodox Serbian Serbian Orthodox Church in 1993. A popular stop is the old house of Arvid Blumenthal, who is well known as “Crocodile Harry ,, is two well -known veteran aids by a miner and World War II. Crocodile Dundee movies. For those who want to experience life under the ground, several motels offer underground rooms.
