We’ve been in the high teens, low twenties overnight in SE Alabama. This is unheard of around here. Pipes bursting everywhere as this area didn’t build with hard freezes in mind.
Got family in AL telling me exactly the same, and they're retired, not feeling the inclination to adjust, deal with busted pipes, power outages and the next tornado. They're in Birmingham, it's always something, but this is ridiculous. They've been there near 20 years. Winter now still has February to mess with them and they are thinking to head south...but haven't forgotten the hurricane that nearly swallowed their beach house. If SE AL is what you say, I better give them a call and try to coax them back to PA.
I've got plumbing crises myself but no floods, twisters or blackouts.
It's been low temp for a week now and today is to be 20 degrees at best. Several inches of snow on the ground. At least three close neighbors too old to shovel or plumb. To them, CNN's "7 degrees warmer" can't happen soon enough!
It was 20 deg in Pensacola Wednesday morning. But the climate change alarmists will ignore this data because it falls outside of the norm.