All of this Australia news is devastating -- the only bright spot is that most of our MR members seem to be safe so far. Please keep it that way!
20F (-6C) here this morning, with a windchill of 9F. This snow and ice is going nowhere, so the roads, particularly the side streets, are still bad and it's another snow day for the kids. I may try to drive a little bit after lunch today after the sun comes out and see for myself which roads are best. It won't get above freezing today, but hopefully the sun and wind will cause some evaporation.
There have been many complaints about the city/state being unable to keep up with the horrible road conditions, and I saw last night on the news that in downtown Atlanta they have hired construction workers with bobcats and bulldozers to scrape off what ice they could and then dump and spread big truckloads of what appeared to be plain old dirt!
At least maybe people will be able to drive down there some today.