90% of the country will be below freezing in the next 5 days

Crowe wrote:
This is why I don't live where there are blizzards. I can't imagine getting up in the wee hours to face the freezing cold to dig out the car to go to a job I really would rather not do...

That's what I do. And I drive 35 miles each way on a nasty highway to do it. We only moved 30 miles north of where we were but it is colder and snowier.

I have a friend up north who would email me in the morning before leaving for work. He'd always sign off with "have to go dig the car out so I can go to work" - made me very grateful to be able to go out and just occasionally have to defrost the windshield and drive just 6 miles no freeway.