My wife moved down from Long Island three years ago and greatly misses the New York area; she
lived in Greenwich Village for many years. However, this morning, maybe she's feeling more at home
here in North Carolina. Still, it's in the 20's and headed down to the high teens tonight, before it gets
up to a balmy 40's in a few days. Fortunately, the incoming dry air and wind soaked up most of the
film of rain so it didn't turn to ice before the cold descended, but that wind makes if feel much colder.
I grew up in the Chicago area, and they're having some real cold up there, my family reports. In
Chicago, I contended when the temp hit nine below I could walk anywhere in the city. I know blizzards
and I know cold, but Southern ice is deadly (I say from bitter experience).
