Bitter cold hits Northeast, closing some schools

[cali]

NEW YORK (AP) — Bone-chilling cold has prompted schools around the Northeast to delay openings and some canceled classes altogether on Monday. The cold snap was linked to at least two weekend deaths, including that of a woman whose frozen body was found in a driveway.

Schools in western and northeastern Pennsylvania, across upstate New York and parts of Vermont and New Hampshire closed their doors or delayed openings to protect students from temperatures that dropped in some locations as low as 25 degrees below zero or even colder.

The wind chill in some areas of New England was expected to make it feel as cold as 50 degrees below zero.

In Montpelier, Vt., it was 21 below at 7 a.m.


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30 below in my little hollow in the Northeast Kingdom. All the local schools are closed.

[enough]

1. Cali, how do you stay warm? (nt)

[cali]

7. I have a tight little house

[piratefish08]

2. -10 in southern NH.

sucks

[Shagbark Hickory]

3. Where to the homeless people in VT stay when it is this cold?

[cali]

6. COTS

in Burlington (Committee on Temporary Shelter)

Here in the Northeast Kingdom, Northeast Kingdom Community Action and Northeast Kingdom Youth Services, provide funds and shelter.

Not so familiar with the rest of the state, but I can't remember a time I heard of a homeless person freezing to death here.

[NotThisTime]

4. -21.1 here and I can't get my first floor above 66, drafts :(

[sufrommich]

11. I have the same problem every winter when it gets cold,

I have an open stairway going upstairs and no way to stop the warm air from rising.I woke up this morning to 65 downstairs and it probably will stay there until the temps go much higher. My next house will be one floor or have a stairway with a door.

[kestrel91316]

17. Hang a heavy curtain across the opening to the stairway if that's possible.

[sufrommich]

20. It's not possible, I wish it was. nt

[Shagbark Hickory]

13. That's pretty good! Considering when it's +21 here, I can't get my 2nd floor above 66!

Seriously. That's good!

[NotThisTime]

18. It doesn't feel so good, I'm sick and freezing to start with! Oh and my washing machine piping froze

not so good on that one.... I hope it will warm up and thaw but it doesn't look likely...

[Earth_First]

5. It's warmed up a bit here to -8 from an overnight low of -18

Even with a light NNW breeze at 7 mph the windchill was easily approaching -25/-30

I work outdoors overnights, so last night was incredibly brutal.

[rug]

8. The temperature here in the Poconos is 1 ° F. Don't know the windchill.

Schools have a two hour delay.

[yankeepants]

9. - 15 here on the eastern shore of Lake Ontario

Never had out pipes freeze in ten years.

We just got our little Jotul wood stove intalled just before Christmas and it saved us! Mr. Yankeepants works at Fort Drum outside of Watertown . . . -25!

[Canuckistanian]

22. I'm not far from you

And we've got buildings closed in Ottawa because of burst water sprinklers. The Fire Dept. says they'll be busy all day on these calls.

This morning we hit -32C (-26F). That's the coldest it's been in about 5 years.

[Brickbat]

10. That was here last week, and we still go to school at -20. :)

It's a toasty 15 today.

[handmade34]

12. just called my son in W. Danville

he said it wasn't too bad... he's pretty stoic though

[MadHound]

14. I just love how the East Coast gets all the winter weather attention.

Where do you think all that winter weather comes from? Across the plains and Midwest. We were struggling with a bunch of snow and equally cold temperatures last week, still are in some places. But does anybody say anything? Noooo. But when that same winter weather hits the NE and East coast, it is now national news.

The Midwest and Great Plains simply doesn't exist in the minds of many in the media.

[Ichingcarpenter]

15. Its 33 degrees in Angisoq, Greenland right now

THAT'S IN THE DEAD OF WINTER WITH NO SUN.

[SoCalDem]

16. 37° in Juneau, AK n.t.

[NotThisTime]

19. That's downright balmy!

[H2O Man]

21. Bitter cold here.

I had a house full of romping doggies keeping me awake all night.