It was 9F here when I woke up today. That's not a common temp for NC. I don't have to be anywhere this morning, so I'm just watching the birds with my cat. I also found a package of Trader Joes pumpkin bread mix in the pantry, so I mixed it up with walnuts, pecans, and raisins. It's baking now. Eventually I'll go for a walk in the cold, and then l'll come home and eat warm pumpkin-nut bread with tea.
There are worse plans for a day. I hope everyone who has to deal with the cold finds good bundling options, easily openable cars that start, and minimal black ice.
It's horribly cold here and, of course, there are public transit delays. One co-worker tried Metro for the first time ... doesn't understand how people do that every day (she lives fairly close and walks most days). Meanwhile, the buses are ... kind of free-ranging. There are official snow detours for areas with poorly plowed/hilly roads, but a lot of the drivers seem to not be in on where they should be going and skip a lot of their official routes, which leaves people standing out in the cold for indefinite periods or drops them off much further from their destination than they expected.
There's also a story that a family of eight kids, from four to 14, were put off a series of buses that couldn't complete their routes and ended up stranded somewhere between home and school. They were - reportedly - found trying to shelter on a porch until some kind strangers took them in, warmed them up, and called for help. They ended up in the hospital being treated for hypothermia and were released to their mother. However, this was from Fox ... so I'm taking it with a grain (or more) of salt.
I'm glad I don't have to go out in this weather for a commute (even by car), but OTOH, the temperature is 4 right now, and this built-in-1920 house is nowhere near what the thermostat says. But I have a nice warm fleece panda hat on and a wool blanket. The only real issue is my feet -- even with wool socks, they're pretty cold. I'm thinking heating pad.
It isn't as bad as I expected- it was 4 this morning. So not as much colder than usual as other places. We seem to only have public transit delays going home, mostly because of cars driving for the weather rather than the buses themselves. People get so grumpy about it, but I still would rather be on the bus than driving.
Anyone had word from ita?
It's 11 / feels like 6 here. Too cold. Need more degrees.
I was also wondering about ita.
It's 5F here, which is a few degrees warmer than predicted. Schools were delayed by 2 hours in our town.
In lighter news, science!
The only good thing about temperatures that cold, at least in low humidity Utah, is that all the free-ranging moisture has already been stunned and dropped to the ground, so I don't have to scrape my windshield. It's been warmish around here, so there's moisture in the air from everything melting, then it got cold and plummeted to my windows.
It's zoomed up to 17 here in DC, but my DH tells me that the heat pump at home is not working, boo! (We have radiators on one of three floors, so we are not completely without heat.) Oh, well, we wanted to consult with our HVAC person anyway to ask about what our options are if we renovate this Spring.
