It's -20 in Wisconsin today. 9 degrees seems warm to me. However, I know that our buildings are built for this temp and your building in Alabama are not. I hope you can stay warm and your cold temp is short lived.

Southern Maryland here checking in with 13 degrees this morning. We are keeping watch on our water lines too. We've been lucky so far. In the small older cottage that we rent out, the water lines were practically outside, so DH spent the last two days moving the pipes and updating the freeze tapes. He had to remove kitchen cabinets and counter, but it is done. Stay warm.

It's 1 degree here in WV, snow on the ground. We've been letting our faucets drip for days, hate to see the next water bill !! Going to be even colder tonite, then warmer for the weekend. If I didn't like to read, I'd be going crazy too, but I read a LOT.

We are sitting at the freezing point right now in Southern Alberta. Going to get up to +6C (42.8F). With the exception of Saturday, the long range says above 0 for the next two weeks. After last winter, I'll take it!

For everyone on the East Coast, stay warm!

Another frigid morning. -20C, and rising to -16C. With the wind it will feel like -27 (-17F)

NYC suburb, right now it is 17 but with wind the report says it feels like 3.

Yesterday it was sunny and 38. It felt balmy while I was out walking the dog!

I am on the east coast of Florida about 100 miles north of Miami. Temp this morning was 39 degrees. It is not supposed to get out of the 50's the rest of the day. Not complaining. There's 8 plus feet of snow back home in Massachusetts.

After a low of -8 (F) this morning, it is up to nothing (zero degrees). However, the wind in rural Illinois is blowing and I had to wear a jacket this morning to get the newspaper.

We've been excited when the temps get into the teens over here. We can at least take our dogs to the park for play time. My dog has been pouting around the house this morning. She didn't even want to go outside to do her business when she got up...HA!

Chicago woke up to -8 with a windchill of -28. At 11 am we are up to a balmy -4. Same carp for tonight and tomorrow. Schools are closed too. Taking the dog out is no fun but at least she is moving faster to do her business. Emma gets excited to go out so dressing her in her coat is like dressing a toddler. She is bored so I am letting her tear up old junk mail and envelopes and giving her water bottles to crunch.

I am so done with winter.

We're in the deep freeze too. Temp was -13 when my son drove to work yesterday morning. We had more snow last night. Now wind chill warnings have been issued for today, tonight, and tomorrow. I have to venture out tomorrow to get my car repaired, thanks to the guy who rear-ended it at a stoplight a few weeks ago. I'd rather stay home.

Deep freeze here in West TN; single digits overnight with highs not reaching 20. We had snow/ice Monday and it's still around. Schools closed for the rest of the week. Main roads are passable but back roads are sheets of ice.

Snow/ice removal is not the norm here so there are very few plows. When they "treat" the streets, it is with a brine or potato water......nothing to break up existing ice. We rely on the sun to be strong and melt the ice.

Weather tomorrow is to wake up with this bitter cold and more snow/ice. Changes to wintry mix and the rain. We should hit the mid 50s Saturday but then go back into the deep freeze.

Faucets have been dripping for days. I'd much rather pay an inflated water bill than have to repair the damage caused by burst pipes. Two of my neighbors had that happen last January and it wasn't pretty.

Stay warm everyone!

I'm not thrilled with the below zero temps here but I really sympathize with those of you who don't usually have to deal with the snow, ice, and freezing temps. This, too, shall pass. I hope soon!

My temps are similar to what Jasdip is experiencing ... but I live in an insulated house.

When I carried a cardboard tray of things out the back door this morning ... the wind grabbed an unanchored plastic bag out of it ... and almost before I could look ... had hauled it across the lawn, over the lane and out into the field. By the time I'd put the tray into the car, about 40 feet away ... thebag was out of sight.

My suggestion for warm water pipes for when you're going to be home for a period is to turn them off, or only a slow drip, for a number of hours, say, four to six, even eight, depending on how much their area is below freezing, then turn them on to run very slowly for a while to clear the chilled water from the pipe, then turn them off again when warm water appears, for several hours.

ole joyfuelled ... (with help from the oil-fuelled furnace on chilly days)

I am at work in below zero temps and icy roads. Glad I can finally get here. I'll take it. I'll be even more happy come Saturday and the temps are above freezing and it will have rained all Friday, getting rid of what's left of the ice.

ND checking in--snowing light and 20above no wind

I'm in central AL and I had to go to Trussville today. It was 20º when I left home just after 11:00 and it hit 28º before I got home. It's a balmy 30º at 3:00 pm. It felt cold out but not as bad as yesterday when it was 40º. It was very windy yesterday and calm today.

Scituate Ma. which you must have seen on every channel. We have over six feet of snow and it's snowing now. It will be zero tonight, snow tomorrow and on and on. This is so trying.

POTATO water to treat roads in Tennessee? WTH??? Where do you get potato water, and how does it work?

Friends chose to come play weekly at my place Mexican Train. Fine with me as I didn't have to go out :o) Great game day! Lots of fun!

This morning was -18F.....AAAACK!

It's -11º in central Indiana. Every time my little dog needs to go out to potty I put her boots on and her lined coat. I'm afraid her little paws will freeze otherwise. She absolutely refuses to use a potty pad so it's out the door four or five times a day. Our hot water pipe in our master bath froze even though we left it dripping overnight. I'm hoping it thaws out before it bursts. If not it will be a real mess.

I'm with Jasdip and Ed here in Eastern Ontario Canada. -23 C, and we had a medical appointment at 7 a.m. It was pretty fresh!

It makes me wonder how in the world the Pioneers ever settled the North? What the heck were they thinking and how did they not freeze to death?

Littlebug, potato juice byproduct is being used in some locations as an alternative to traditional salt brine and rock salt, both of which are damaging to the road surface and bad for the environment.

They're always looking for cheaper, improved alternatives but if they don't do the job, then it's back to salt brine. I've read about a sugar beet byproduct, too.

Hey Jak, I didn't know you live in our area!!! Whereabouts are you?

Luckygardnr lives in our area as well. She doesn't post as much as she did, but she reads us all the time. Right now she's in Costa Rica (lucky devil).

Oh, our schools are closed today because of the cold, and they're telling people who work outside to limit their time of exposure.

I feel for you folks. 9degrees in Huntsville, Al ? We are having a milder winter

Here at about 5,000 ft in NM. Some snow at Christmas. My dogs love snow,

Hard to keep them inside when the ground is white. One would think they were kids( the two legged kind) still can't wait to move back to Al.

Keep warjo

-17 this morning and the electricity went off. Been off most of the day but the temps climbed to 12 now. So miserable in the house I left around 1100 to go eat and drink hot coffee in the next town at Cracker Barrel. It was 59 in the house when I got home and the power was off...it came on twice apparently when I was out. Warm water in the water heater and KU told me the power was knocked off twice by power surges. I tried to turn my space heater on in the bedroom but it's dead. I think the power surge must've killed it. Decided not to turn the other other on for a while. I don't want to contribute to another outage.

Rhizo, are you getting any snow or ice? I am in Chilton County & it did not get above 32º today-which is unheard of here. Stay warm!!