[southernnorthcarolina]

Our poor little lizards are dying - that may sound silly, but they’re typical of this place, and seeing them frozen on the ground is very upsetting. I’d rather see Al Gore frozen into a block of ice somewhere soon.

I agree. It's tough to watch.

I have a pair of herons who stay near my pond here in NC year-round. Our low temps have been in the mid-teens several days running. Two or three days of lows like that per year is normal -- but six or seven nights in a row is something I've never seen. The herons can survive the cold -- I think -- but I'm afraid they may starve, as the fish have gone to the bottom of the pond, out of the herons' reach.

[livius]

The cold weather is expected to continue into next week, at least here in Florida. It’s the length of this stretch of cold that is the problem, in addition to the fact that the sun seems to have no effect on it and doesn’t warm things up at all during the day, so there’s no time to recover before night falls.

Very strange. An older lady was telling me that it hasn’t been like this in North Florida since about 1950.