We had nearly a foot of snow and a lot of frozen water lines. It's 10F here right now.

Our main problem is the lack of snow removal equipment because snow is very rare here.

As a lad growing up in Minnesota it was quite common to see -50F weather many times. However, I don't recall our schools closing even once. We did have a "mud vacation" in the Spring each year.

It got to -9F yesterday. We had a power outage for several hours.