The best is yet to come...........hold on to your Long Johns down there cuz its gonna get colder.

Yup, midwest and east coast I guess. The FEDs have relaxed the restrictions on how many hours the propane delivery drivers can be on the road. Glad we have natural gas, our bill would be more like $400 if it was propane. Maybe more since the shortage has pushed prices up.

Spent most of my day on the road and outside today. The day started out at -2 at 7am when I took the kids to school. It finally hit 1 around 11 am. Then it hit 4 degrees around 3. It was a heat wave. Then at 3:30 the snow started, just enough to make the road a little slippery and bring out the idiots.

Then I find out that my moms pipes were frozen this morning. Why is it that my 77 year old mother does not call any of her 6 children to ask for help ? Instead she decides that posting it on Facebook is the best idea. I didn't find out about it until 10 hrs later, nothing I can do for her now. And it is going to only get colder around here over the next 5 days.

Its plenty cold here but nothing like you guys are dealing with ,Im just now getting warm.

Hey Hank.........more snow comin tomorrow !!! (just thought I'd let ya know) :-)

We are in a fire danger problem now. The coast range has fires going from slash burns that should have gone out long ago with the rains. Winds kicked up and they fired up from months ago when they were started. Looks like some rain next week finally. We are 10 to 15" below normal for rain. Sunny and 52 today is the forecast.

Ray is your property in danger ? I know that you would love the snow, in the form of rain, that we have now. We are a couple inches above the record for the month of January. But we could use it too. The great lakes are far below their normal level.

We had a heat wave today. I think it hit 22 degrees, but we got a couple more inches of snow. More snow expected tonight, and then the temps are supposed to drop again going into Monday.

Here in Michigan the schools allow for 5 snow days. We have used them all in the month of January. But with temps expecting to dip to -8 on Tuesday and Wednesday I think that we might be using a couple more.

No fire danger where I'm at, but is dry. I'm guessing we will have brown lawns this summer. Won't be allowed to water if the rains don't return and fill up our water source.

Haven't really had a warm day this week. Cold and windy mostly. Three mornings in a row we started off in the upper 20s to low 30s. It's hard to get out of a warm bed and go to work knowing you will be working outside for 10-12 hours. Every day I pray for "windshield time."