Well, if you restrict yourself to the lower 48, then no, you're not reading it wrong. Some people here seem to think that Alaska is part of the US, however, and I suspect they have you beat! Ambler and Chandalar Lake right now are both at -14F. OTOH, many other locations in Alaska are warmer than you!
Normally we seldom see temps above zero and can be at -30 for weeks but yes we were warmer than West Texas today. And Tuesday we were above freezing - for a few minutes, anyway.
Sunshine is good for the spirits.
Wine is a good second if one gets tired of white and grey. Wow, that is nuts! I certainly feel for all the critters outside everywhere.
I do like how my house is built to deal with cold. Nothing like looking out my window at -10F while standing in 72 degrees while only paying about $70 a month in heat.
Hmm. 15 inches of snow here Tuesday night. We more or less recovered within 24 hours. I will take a foot of snow where they know how to deal with it over an inch of ice where they don't any day.
Kent will (not) like this one:
It was obvious to me that the right lane had filled with a bunch of snow that drifted. In front of the semi was a smashed up SUV. So we can guess it went like: the SUV driver hit and/or attempted to dodge the snow in the right lane, hit the semi and other cars and as the semi driver avoided killing them all the semi jack-knifed. Thus we have "Semi jack-knifes and closes the Edens!" They disparately wanted to add the usual "overturns" and that was the initial report but it was too obvious that wouldn't work.
Wow... I really like your place, Tim!
