I remember your posts on North Dakota winters from a long time ago on another board. The Dakotas can get pretty brutal in the wintertime. I remember back in the days when I drove semi getting stuck out in the middle of nowhere and just having a couple 2 liter bottles of water.
ABC news just broad cast that Seattle hit 102! Cute segment where a mother was taking stuffed polar bears out of the freezer and asked her daughter why they were in there. She said that polar bears need to be cold, lol.