As I've mentioned in the past, I live in Oklahoma. Where the Siberian blast comes through without nothing to stop it. Yesterday (Tuesday, Feb 16), we set the record cold ever, since they started keeping records in 1899. Negative 14 F or negative 26 C.
Wind turbines were frozen solid (good thing Cal invented Ice-X), solar panels were covered with snow, and the actual demand on gas pipelines exceeded their capacity. Throw a foot total of snow on that and life here is about like a normal northern winter - except no one here has houses ready for that.
Keep your faucets dripping so they don't freeze. Except that to save power, the electric company was doing rolling blackouts and turned off the power for the water plant. And also managed to screw up and turn off the power for several nursing homes and one of the hospitals, too. But in spite of all that, the Thunder still played their game last night - which ALSO has not set well.
Oh, well - you'd think that with three full days of just me and the dogs, because my wife had to go in Sunday and won't be home until tomorrow (she's Director of Nursing at an Assisted Living - it's not the actual roads, we both drive a Subaru that could handle that, it's all the staff call offs) that'd I'd get a lot of writing done.
Nope! I'm VERY warm natured. And I was WAY too cold to do much except sit and vegetate. Wife will be dressed in two layers of flannel for bed, I'm in gym shorts and that's it. I've been wearing insulated socks, thermal underwear, and another layer on top of that. INSIDE the house. Probably TMI for everyone, but just my ramblings now that the sun is finally out and it's above five degrees outside for the first time since Sunday.