I feel your pain. It's been a long time since we've had a winter like this. DH works for the local highway shop. He hasn't had a weekend off since before Thanksgiving. The only days off were a couple of vacation days. He did that only to get some down time for himself. He's out again today. Hopefully, spring will come early this year and we won't have a repeat of last year when it snowed into May.

Here in Long Island NY it's Sunday , 16 degrees at 8 am and not likely to go any higher today. I walked to the store this morning for dog food but I was okay because I dressed in layers and boots. I'm getting stir crazy/ cabin fever and I'm sick of washing sidewalk salt off my floors every time I come in. My dog Molly and I will stay in today, watch TV and eat snacks.

Just now the forecaster said:" It's not often you have 44ð and minus 4 degrees in the same day.

I live next door to the Iowa Dept. of Transportation. The snowplows have been coming and going day and night forever. I wonder at the mindset of travelers who go right ahead and drive the interstate in blizzard conditions with no thought as to who they might involve in an accident and the safety of the VOLUNTEERS who come to rescue them. They give no space to the snow plow drivers, expecting the snowplow to move for them. It doesn't make sense to me to be out in the thick of it risking so many lives. Where could they possibly have to go that's important enough to pay with their life or the life of someone else? I will never understand.

It's 5 above here in NEPA as I write this, and Tuesday is supposed to be wicked. Not as wicked as MN, Marita, but bad enough for me.

I normally heat with wood, but Friday I just couldn't seem to get warm, and my fingers were so painful I couldn't do anything useful. I had set out a piece of steak to defrost in the morning, and by evening it hadn't softened a bit, so I guess I didn't imagine how cold the house was. Yesterday I let the stove go out and ran the oil burner all day, but I had to switch back in the evening because without the heat rising from the woodstove my bedroom is uncomfortably cold.

I'm looking at the extended forecast, and don't see any relief in sight until February--and that's temps in the teens and 20's.

Our weather is the same, the temperature is now up to 17.6 from 8 this morning. It is to get warmer and then snow and then temperature to really drop again. It has already snowed this morning once. We can't get out of our drive because of the drifting snow.

We are in the orange alert in our county. It does not bother me I have never gotten cabin fever and do not understand that as I have so much to keep me busy. I am making yeast rolls this day plus some home made Salisbury steaks.

Sue in Central Indiana

3rd round?? The first one hasn't quit yet! On and on and on. Too long of subarctic temps and more than enough snow. Expecting to see a Polar Bear wander by any day now. Getting up ambition to go shovel, again. I just posted about the horrible accident here Thurs.

This winter has been awful here too, in southern Ohio. The constant snow is bad enough, but the COLD is what is getting to me.

It's pretty bad when 21ú seems warm! I get cabin fever too and actually look forward to shoveling snow just to get outside and then be able to walk up and down the driveway.

This has been an especially hard winter and if it is an anomaly, then there is about one more month of it left. If this is the new reality and that future winters will be the same, that worries me.

Spring cannot come too soon for me.

It's 6ú here so a veritable heat wave! But the loose snow is like a blizzard, and it looks horrible out. The plow just went through my driveway, but I'm afraid it's going to fill again very soon.

Huh, I feel positively guilty about our constant sunshine and upper 60's/low 70's temps. (Northern Cal) Of course we're in the beginning of a drought so things are not all rosy, but I sure do love to see the sun. I don't think I could take the constant cold weather and I'm sorry for those of you dealing with it. One dd is in the Bronx but hasn't complained yet; it's so nice for her to use the subway so she doesn't get that darned cabin fever. Growing up in Portland, OR, I remember occasions of snow that were lots of fun at first, but got mighty boring as they dragged on. And that was without the responsibilities of an adult!

I was just imagining how life would have been for the early settlers. No wonder they went mad. I have cabin fever too but I have electricity and entertainment..computer, TV , phone to call people. Imagine life 150 years ago.

I love winter, but even I am sooooo sick of the same old, same old. I only get out to walk the dogs. I'm sick of all the salt dragged in the house, sick of not being able to hang clothes out, sick of the unrelenting cold which never leaves.

Just when the temps reach the low 20's like it is now, in two days it will below zero again with wind chills minus 25!

"Just when the temps reach the low 20's like it is now, in two days it will below zero again with wind chills minus 25!"

I wonder if I get that written on a tank top to wear next August if I'll laugh or cry.

Now that I'm retired it's a whole new ballgame. Only have to worry about walking to the barns twice a day. It takes 15 minutes just to get dressed for that walk! But the stress relief from no commute it beyond wonderful!

I guess I'll take my 45F and foggy, gray gloom...

I don't think in my 44 years it has ever been near 0 here. It will on rare occasion get in the low 20's. That happened in 90.. It was about 10 days of 20's , wind and ice. Power loss and all..

We are is still waiting for winter. Severe drought situation.

We're at 27 but with the Wind Chill feels like 19. Heat wave tomorrow - 38 but then rest of week not above freezing.

Family in MI getting slammed with a lot of lake affect snows. Friend has pics on FB showing her house and you can't even see the highway which runs right in front of her house. Another chum showed what happened after he opened his garage door. Drift about halfway up the door.

Ugh! Ready for warmer weather anytime now.

This cold snap could continue into February since February is only 6 days away.

Chicago was like MN today. It was -1 at 7 am and is now -4, going to -18 overnight. High of -5 on Tuesday. Wind chills are -25 to -45 and they are telling us to stay home. All schools are closed as are some offices.

Cabin fever has set in, you can't walk the dogs it is just too cold for them. Mine is so bored, there is no one to bark at on the street as he sits in the window. And I got the gas bill, it is 3 times last years. I just cried.

Old Man winter needs to take a vacation!!! Enough is enough!!! Spring
cant come fast enough here in NE New Jersey!!!

Yes, I've been watching Chicago because that's where I'm from. It has been very close to MN in low temps this year. I just got my gas bill today too and it was pretty high. Evidently it will go higher with the recent pipeline explosion that's been in the news.

Lots of dog walkers in my neighborhood even in this weather. So glad I have cats :)

The kids went to school here today. It was in the teens. Just got a message saying school is on a one hour delay tomorrow. Temps are supposed to drop below zero. It's 11 degrees right now.

I had to work the past three days. Saturday was horrible, blizzard like conditions. I drive 25 miles to work. No snow plows out when I left early that morning. I couldn't see landmarks and was driving about 20 mph on the parkway. I ended up going off the wrong exit and had to turn around and get back on it. When I finally made it to the end of the parkway I knew I was going to be late for work and called to let them know. The house super asked how I managed to get where I was because she had gotten a bunch of call ins because the parkway had a truck turned over and it was closed. I must have just missed it. Tractor trailer and a salt truck.

Not looking forward to going back this week. I have three more days to work and then I go on vacation. Hopefully the freezing cold weather will be gone soon.

A homeless man froze to death in Lexington, I think last week. All the shelters are above capacity and people are going out in the city looking for people who are out in the cold.

Not afraid to drive myself in snow but other people terrify me. They drive way to fast for the conditions.