I’m in Denver. We have a backyard so doggie can run out, pee, and run back in. He was distracted by my brother shoveling as he thought it would be fun to help, but not today.
Denver is strange because although it is -12, it is sunny and bright so seems warmer. My brother’s husky? I bet he’s sitting out in the yard LOVING this. He loves the cold and will find the last patch of ice in the spring and sit on it until it melts away. He’s 16 years old!
I love Canadian weather - in June through August…
H and FIL just left to go to the cottage (on a river - vacation place) to make sure heat is on and can get downstairs. Running heat is cheaper than fixing burst pipes. I hope the grid holds. He has no other source of heat here or there than electric.
I lived in Golden for a few years, @twoinanddone . The area is a very beautiful place with mercurial weather – fall, winter, and spring. Could be 60 one day and 20 the next.
Final update – we are now below zero at -2, on our way to an overnight low of -12. Wind chill currently is -24. This is odd because usually, the weather gets warmer as the day progresses, until dusk – we’re seeing the opposite.
It was 51 yesterday at 3 pm and -5 at 9 pm. It will be 50 again on Christmas. We just have these little 2 day freezes. My daughter lives in Laramie, which is only 2 hours north, but can get to -20 with the wind chill very quickly.
Son changed his flight back from Tuesday to Wednesday for free; he could have changed it until next week. But he reluctantly wanted to get back, partly because he had left the heat off in his apartment. It was 50 inside when he arrived last night but up into the high 60’s today. Outside is another story…
Every day I’m grateful that we made the move here seven years ago. It will be 0 in our old Chicago suburb home town tomorrow - after the snow passes through.
Son and DIL just decided to skip a stop overnight at our farm and push on to here in VA tonight - should arrive quite late, but they cut 2 hours off their trip by going a more direct route, so that’s helpful. It also lets them avoid DC traffic.
In our home area a warning came out to be off the roads tomorrow by noon due to flash freezing of the wet roads and temps going low enough many treatments won’t be effective against ice. S tells me he thinks the same will happen down toward where we are in VA, so wants to be off the road entirely tomorrow.
I wish them uneventful travels and will be waiting up for them tonight.
Eh, I just googled their route. They won’t miss DC traffic (sigh). Hopefully it won’t be bad when they get there.
Googling…. A blessing and a curse! 
Hope they make it safely. I suspect anyone traveling today in the storm-to-be areas are going to encounter traffic - everyone and their brother will be trying to beat the weather
They texted me and are taking a different route with a similar ETA, so will be skipping DC after all. There are already two crashes on I95 south, so hopefully their route is better.
Well I am on the plane…. I think my sanity is intact!
Brrrrrr
We are supposed to fly on Saturday from Las Vegas (high of 60) to Tampa (high of 45!!). In Tampa, that’s an Arctic blast. If we make it there, I just hope the rental house has adequate heat.
Glad we we were in Tampa the first week of December and not the last.
We were supposed to fly from FL to Boston tomorrow. Managed to change our tickets to early Saturday morning although we now fly in to Providence. Hoping that flight works to so we can make it in time for Christmas Eve dinner!
When we lived in St Petersburg (across the bay from Tampa for anyone unfamiliar with the area), our house (that we owned) didn’t even have heat. The handful of days it actually got cold we used a space heater or decided to roast something in the oven. Those days were rare. St Pete is more shielded from temperature swings due to having water on three sides. I would think Tampa places ought to be more likely to have heat.
-7 here with a windchill of -33. I am planning on cozying in tomorrow. I will only go out to take dogs on their bathroom breaks and refill the bird feeders. I plan to curl up on the couch and read my book club’s book- The Children’s Blizzard. I hope this blizzard is nothing like that one! Such an timely read.
Greater Seattle area here. Temperatures never rose above 25 degrees today. Weatherfolk say we might break some record today. Not good. SeaTac airport is apparently a cluster today.
Just came back from scouting local stores for whatever we could not buy last weekend. Ugh. We live at the bottom of a hill, and I have a feeling our mailbox will be gently smooshed again by cars using it as a braking device… Costco was out of eggs. 
And the local expensive store was out of sour cream and buttermilk.
Our Costco has been limiting eggs and I could only get jumbo at another big box. I’m fine with jumbo but weird to see egg shelves empty.
We held at about 40 degrees all day and just in the last 10
Mins the wind is starting to howl, the rain is turning to snow and the temperature is starting to plummet. Salt is by the back door ready to be used in the morning to be able to walk the dog across the deck and into the yard !
Hope everyone stays safe and warm!
S and DIL will likely be here around 2am. They said the roads are fine now, but the mountains were miserable. I’ll still be up waiting for them. Right now here in VA it’s still 44 degrees, down from 58 a couple hours ago, but nowhere near hitting the cold snap yet.
I got a chuckle from a FB thing one of H’s friends posted. Those of you on FB likely saw it. It went something like:
To everyone who said they would only do something when hell freezes over, get ready to do it tomorrow.