<p>14 and Ann Arbor roads are fine but people are still crawling along. My twenty minute drive took an hour.</p>
<p>Since we are all hopefully coming OUT of the arctic weather now (or soon), take a look at these AMAZING photos of Chicago this week - warm weather friends, beware…these photos MAY contain frigid graphics. ;)</p>
<p>[Frozen</a> Chicago: What The Windy City Looks Like Under Ice, Thanks To The Polar Vortex (PHOTOS)](<a href=“Frozen Chicago: What The Windy City Looks Like Under Ice, Thanks To The Polar Vortex (PHOTOS) | HuffPost Chicago”>Frozen Chicago: What The Windy City Looks Like Under Ice, Thanks To The Polar Vortex (PHOTOS) | HuffPost Chicago)</p>
<p>Felt like a veritable heat wave here in CT this morning: 24 degrees!</p>
<p>I read last night that the Gov. of Alabama’s private residence sustained >$50K of damage from burst water pipes in his attic. Having just completed a horrible reno where everything that could go wrong did go wrong, my heart goes out to anyone who now has to deal with home repairs.</p>
<p>It’s gotten to the point where people are blaming just about everything on the cold now. Fed Ex claims it can’t deliver a package since Monday due to the temps, yet USPS and UPS both delivered something today that I ordered yesterday.</p>
<p>My doctor’s office couldn’t return a call that I left on Monday due to the weather. Seriously?</p>
<p>People around here were so excited about the “heat wave” today. I saw tons of people without mittens or hat. The wind chill this morning was -8 !!</p>
<p>So far our school is not canceled for tomorrow. However, all the surrounding corporations are…and they aren’t nearly as rural. I’m not holding out much hope.</p>
<p>Rain/freezing rain is forecast for the weekend in Maine, even in the mountains! That’s a problem, because we wanted to go up to our cabin, and it might be tricky to get a snowmobile up the steep hill in those conditions. Sigh. We could have handled snow or cold, but ice is bad. We’ll have to postpone our trip.</p>
<p>Hit 26 this afternoon. Only needed my sweater coat. </p>
<p>Not happy to hear about freezing rain in Maine. Always makes me worried my son will do something stupid like drive somewhere.</p>
<p>Saw people out in shirtsleeves and shorts today in Wisconsin. It was -18 here this morning but warmed up to 20!</p>
<p>All the tomato plants in our backyard made it through the cold snap Florida experienced last few days. Planted them in September and they are still producing lots of tomatoes.</p>
<p>That’s good to hear. I wonder how the fruits will be…</p>
<p>the fruit should be ok…we only had temps dip short period below freezing for couple of hours…not a hard freeze. When I was young kid I made the mistake of eating some oranges from a tree a few days after a very hard freeze…I got very sick!</p>
<p>Why would frozen fruit make you sick?</p>
<p>If the fruit isn’t fully ripened, it essentially rots the fruit and promotes harmful bacteria and such…</p>
<p>I think the fruit spoiled and fermented or something after being in sun and thawing out a few days after freeze. I know I got sick.</p>
<p>Who would have thought that 29 degrees could feel warm!</p>
<p>24 degrees! It’s fantastic. </p>
<p>But terrible road visibility.</p>
<p>No school today either! This will be the 4th weekend D has been out. S1 is getting married June 14th. Every day we creep closer. Ugg.</p>
<p>sryrstress, where are you?? I thought we were mostly done with this weather nonsense, at least for a while.</p>
<p>Hopefully, worst thing that happens is she has to reschedule exams earlier so she can make the wedding. Don’t add that to the rest of your stress!</p>
<p>Northern Indiana–hoping for Monday 
No roads got plowed until Wed. I thought we’d go with a 2 hr delay today, but I guess not. Yesterday there were still rural roads with snow issues. Today it’s fog.</p>