They had some clips on the news here from interviews of passengers, and one girl said her flight had already been canceled 3 times. I was wondering if you guys were caught up in any of the carp there. They just said "Northeastern US" but didn't give anything more specific than that, so I assumed NY, NJ, Maryland area. Then this morning they were showing traffic backed up where people had to stay overnight in their cars on the road because it was at a complete standstill. People had to turn off their cars to conserve gas, so some guy said he had to turn on his car once every half hour or hour, but the temps dropped so low that it cooled down really quickly once the engine was off. I hope they got traffic moving again! People were without food and water, etc. Out of curiosity, do you guys keep blizzard kits in your cars there? In Wyoming, we always had a couple of jugs of water, a can of non-perishables like candybars and crackers, and extra winter duds like stocking hats and gloves, and a sleeping bag for if we get stuck and have to sleep in the freezing car. We also always have a snow shovel, and a bag of either sand or kitty litter, and a couple of wooden blocks to stick under the tires to give some traction. And I don't know about most people, but we also had a sort of homemade heater made of an empty coffee can with some holes cut in it (for oxygen) and a tuna can with rolled up newspaper strips and wax. You light the tuna can and put the coffee can over the top of it and it makes heat, so you don't need to run your engine while you're idling. We don't need such things here, but it's pretty much standard in Wyoming that you have stuff in the car for a sudden storm.
When my husband visited once before we were married, it was really nice weather, and we had run up to the "mall" for coffee with my mom and she chewed my husband up one side and down the other because he hadn't bothered to bring a coat. She warned him that the weather could turn FAST and you always had to be prepared, even if it looked like it was beautiful outside. She wasn't wrong. I always make my kids bring their jackets just in case, but it doesn't usually change suddenly here like it does there, but it's been drilled into me that you ALWAYS bring a coat with you.
“, all that initial sand became buried so deep that it didn’t make a bit of difference, and the sand trucks were in no way prepared to go back out into that once-in-about-every-one-hundred-years carp…!!!!! 
