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     T9r |
MILWAUKEE, Wis. (AP) - Homeless people packed shelters, students got a day off from school, and drivers had to take their time as millions of people bundled up to meet subzero temperatures tied to at least six deaths. The arctic cold front dipped into the nation from the Dakotas to New England. Water pipes burst and car batteries balked, forcing many businesses to close. With a temperature of 12 below zero and wind chill of 31 below, Wisconsin's largest school district, Milwaukee Public Schools, shut down, idling some 90,000 children. In upstate New York, 34,000 kids got the day off in Rochester because of temperatures near zero. Schools also closed in parts of Michigan and Illinois. A few schools closed even in Minnesota, where February cold is the norm and people usually cope. Temperatures in Grand Forks, N.D., dipped to 31 below zero early Monday at the airport, 3 degrees lower than the records set in 1982 and 1967, the National Weather Service said. In northern Minnesota, the temperature crashed to 42 below Monday morning, the weather service said. Among shelters trying to aid the homeless was Repairers of the Breach, a daytime shelter that has expanded its hours to stay open 24 hours a day since Friday as temperatures plunged below zero. The shelter doesn't have beds but provides blankets, pillows and meals for people who had nowhere else to go because other shelters were full, said MacCanon Brown, executive director. Fifty-one people stayed Sunday night. "Once this cold spell hit we were just so aware that there are so many people outside or in unheated places," Brown said. "We know that there would be a lot of deaths and terrible frostbite and hypothermia if we weren't open." Without her center, "most of them would be living in bushes, unheated garages, abandoned buildings," Brown said. "They do come in our door. They feel very welcomed." Amtrak shut down passenger service in parts of New York state, where the cold was accompanied by as much as 2 feet of snow. In Illinois, the cold forced Amtrak officials to cancel two trains scheduled to run between St. Louis and Chicago Monday evening. In Kentucky, snowfall of up to 6 inches was forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday in the central and eastern parts of the state, capping several days of below-normal temperatures that dropped into single digits around the state. In Illinois, where temperatures in the northwest part of the state dipped as low as 15 below, a slight reprieve was in sight for Tuesday. "It's bitterly cold ... (but) the coldest of it is over," said Mark Ratzer, a senior forecaster with the weather service. He said a low-pressure system and accompanying cloud cover should ease bitter temperatures slightly. Temperatures reached minus 10 at O'Hare International Airport Monday, and with the wind, it felt more like minus 30 in Chicago, Ratzer said. Frozen pipes closed one downtown Chicago Starbucks for several hours Monday, and employee Jerry Berry, 24, said some customers stood in disbelief for several moments before moving on to the next shop a few blocks away. "We couldn't brew coffee because it was so cold," Berry said. "(This is) the worst day to have to have a situation like this." http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070206/D8N467L00 .html Wake up Temp: 10 degrees, Maryland | ||
| Spiderman |
>>>Frozen pipes closed one downtown Chicago Starbucks for several hours Did someone alert the National Guard! LOL I don't know what is worse people who do not have the common sense enough to deal with goin out in the cold or the news stations acting like it is a national emergency LOL Global warming my ass!  Everyone look out for man-bear-pig!  | ||
| Steve_mackay |
-17F when I went to to work yesterday morning. And of course, 1/2 way to work, the blower motor stopped working! With no heat in the truck, I might as well be riding the Buell to work now. Milwaukee Public Schools may have shut down yesterday. My Son's school however, did not. The wife dropped him off at 9AM, -14F | ||
| Glitch |
Global warming my ass! But that's what makes this so news worthy. Who knew that in the midst of man made climate change that Mother Nature would chime in letting everyone know who's really in charge! | ||
| Johnnylunchbox |
Spiderman - it is my opinion that global warming is a misnomer. I think the real issue is extremes in weather -one way or the other such as hotter hots and colder colds, stronger storms and bigger climatological disasters. | ||
| Spiderman |
yep, Freek weather is a recent event http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1886_Atlantic_hurrica ne_season Hell it was in the 50's in Michigan a month ago. I remember it being colder than this in 1994 in January... | ||
| Sparky |
I don't know, it was 85 here yesterday. 'Ya think there might be something to this Global Warming thing? | ||
| Aesquire |
Remember the year without a summer? Me neither, I wasn't born yet. Volcano effects. Freak weather happens. ( growing up in Tornado Alley teaches you this ) I work outside, in Rochester N.Y., Its been freaking cold! I loved the El Nino weather earlier. Did I bitch about the cold yet? | ||
| Rainman |
Yeah, it's cold. But have you been riding? | ||
| Danger_dave |
Beautiful Summer day here. Warm, light winds and the South Pacific has an almost cyan hue. | ||
| Bomber |
according to the weather panic people in Chicago, it's the coldest winter in 11 years . . . . pretty short memory, eh! | ||
| Davegess |
Actually bomber I think it the coldest stretch weather we have seen in 11 years but unless March is really cold we will come in at or above average for Milwaukee. January was very warm and December was above normal. So far The last week has been much colder than normal and the forecast is for it to remain cold but not quite so far below normal. February could still end up reaching normal it it warms up a bunch. Of course the TV guys have to have something to shout about. | ||
| Bomber |
Brer Dave -- zactly! with the advent of the weather channel, meteroligists aross the country want in on the fun . . . . Muders in the Projects? Soaring inflation? yet another public official convicted of a felony? that ain't nuthin -- big story is the storm that missed us! stopped being news a while back -- deep into the entertainment territory | ||
| Rainman |
Breaking News!!!!! Arctic Cold!!!!!!! in Minnesota!!!!!!! Someone should be shot for thinking that's news. On the other hand, I once wrote a story on how tornadoes missed the town in which I worked as a reporter: "Tornadoes did not blow through Castle Rock yesterday, there was no property damage reported and no one died." | ||
| Crusty |
Upper State New York east of Lake Ontario has gotten over 102" of snow since last Saturday. Boy, does that suck for them. | ||
| Bluzm2 |
Yup! We had a heat wave today, made it all the way up to 9 degrees!!! Man, I love Minnesota...... Brad | ||
| Buellinachinashop |
Days like these make me happy that Janine still does porn. |
