You're assuming that they will survive long enough for road salt to kill them. My money is on them being crushed when the first snowplow hits them with a wave of half frozen slush at 50 kph.
I have a pair of alarm clocks that not only never need internet connectivity, they don't even need power, not even the occasional winding.
The drawback is that it is difficult to change the alarm time, and turning them off requires going all the way to the kitchen and refill the cat food bowls.
The much larger problem is that CN owns the tracks. This means VIA trains spend an unpredictable amount of time sitting in sidings waiting for the freight trains to pass. Grade crossings forcing speed restrictions are at least predictable and can be allowed for in the scheduling.
Tea is my preferred "potion of awakening." Coffee is just too bitter. Coke does have the advantage of being more readily available, and far easier to carry when traveling.
I just did a quick test: travel from where I am to an event over 500Km away in another city, via public transit at a date a couple of months from now. Google found a half a dozen different options for how to get there, and it only took a couple of minutes.
When exactly is this starting? The only service change notice I could find on GO's website is a notice that there will be NO train service on the Kitchener line on November 1st and 2nd.
Our two don't seem to have any interest in climbing the tree. On the other hand, decorations hanging below the bottom branch become cat toys to be batted around the room, and the wrapping on any gifts left under the tree become confetti by morning.
Someone should point out to him is that the highway traffic act is a law, and is violated more times than any other law. I suspect the HTA is violated more often than all other laws put together. A big part of that is the number of times violators are routinely given a pass after being caught.
I've been using Linux in one form or another since Slackware 96. My biggest problem with it is the number of applications that assume Windows. Even wine doesn't help if you're not at least on an x86 platform.
