A deep freeze covers much of the nation

Temperatures have now reached record-setting lows. CNN's George Howell explains who is affected.

[jallenb]

it's -20 degrees in tennessee now

[MotherofHells]

Volcano winter. How many volcanoes went off this year again?

[warioland]

At this rate I am going to be out of work for most of the week.  I was out Monday and Tuesday.  Wednesday who knows but knowing the trends here probably not working any time soon.  This is ridiculous.  I cannot go outside at all and am confined to my home because the outdoor temperatures are virtually uninhabitable being up there with Antartica's weather.  I live in the state of Ohio and my business is shut down due to these harsh conditions. 

[lordwillington]

Just the Eastern Half, the West needs the moisture due to Drought and Wild Fires.

[GilTX]

I love the cold weather better than hot weather

[boccelli]

Al Gore tried to tell everybody! Where are you now Al?

[johnpaily]

 On expected Line Humanity is moving towards self-destruction. Heating and cooling are two basic forces that govern life and sustains earth. They from the day and night cycle and climatic cycle that smoothly gives way to one another sustaining life. The system resists any unilateral winding or unwinding. When it is pushed to some critical limit by unwinding, the system reacts violently by unwinding. It expresses itself during phase changes. In a parallel world design this would manifest as two fold destruction by fire/wind and earth and its cooling forces that manifest as flash flood, snows, earth quake and volcanic eruptions. We are pushing earth to its unwinding limit through reckless release of heat into the environment and we are heading for two fold destruction. It is happening; we cannot close our eyes to it.

[misterenglish]

what if this is a pole shift and North America becomes the new North Pole

[MrWalker]

lucky Americans, all we got here is rain T_T