Quote Originally Posted by david p View Post
At 5:00 this morning the temperature in the Pittsburgh icebox is three degrees! The winds are blowing at a 22 mph pace with gusts clocked at 28 mph!, making the wind chill -18 degrees! It's supposed to "warm up" to a balmy 19 degrees today which is stil too cold for comfort! There are also tons of school delays and a few cancellations and an advisory for high profile vehicles in the wind suh as SUVs, delivey trucks, and any car that sits high.

That's exactly what it was here last night before I went to bed. I have artificially lighted tall Christmas candles on my porch and they got blown over so many times that I finally gave up. Besides, it was too cold and windy to keep going outside to stand them up again. My son doesn't like to pack his heavy winter coat to travel because it takes up so much room in his suitcase but I told him that he has no choice on this trip home. The winds howled all night long. Poor little critters and homeless animals. I'm so grateful to have a warm home and that all my Fur Posse are safe and warm.