Combating The Cold

Ronald Dembowski is bundled up in several layers while holding his traffic control sign Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 6, 2007, along Sorbertown Hill Road in Hunlock Creek, Pa. Dembowski is a flagger for an Asplundh crew who is doing line maintenance tree trimming.

Kristin McCarthy, 24, left, takes Benjamin Kline, 9 months, and Aleksander Kline, 3, for a walk in Washington Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2007. "This is about the threshold of cold that I'll take them walking in," said McCarthy, the boys' nanny, "but it makes the day go faster to take a walk and they're bundled up tight." Temperatures were in the teens Tuesday in Washington.

Frost forms on the balaclava a man wears as he walks through downtown Pittsburgh with temperatures in the single digits, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2007. Bitterly cold weather continued across the northern Plains, Great Lakes and Northeast Tuesday.

A lone woman braves the cold as she walks past a sewer vent Monday, Feb. 5, 2007, in Milwaukee. Overnight temperatures of minus 14 degrees with wind chills between minus 30 and minus 40 took over Milwaukee as a cold snap gripped the Midwest, Great Lakes and Northeast.

Ice forms on the face of a homeless man who did not want to be named Monday, Feb. 5, 2007, in Milwaukee. Overnight temperatures of minus 14 degrees with wind chills between minus 30 and minus 40 took over Milwaukee as a cold snap gripped the Midwest.

Judy Chianos covers her face with a scarf while waiting for her car to be parked in downtown Harrisburg, Pa., Monday, Feb. 5, 2007, with the temperature in Harrisburg at nine degrees. Chianos, of Lower Paxton Twp. (near Harrisburg), takes the cold weather in stride. "I was planting bulbs in January," she said. "It will pass."

Roxann Schmidt of Neenah, Wis., battles below zero temperatures and dangerously cold windchills while walking to the City Center, Monday, Feb. 5, 2007, in Appleton, Wis.

Brothers Nick, 14, left, and Jake Pflum, 16, are bundled up against the cold as they play basketball in their Little Chute, Wis. driveway on Monday, Feb. 5, 2007.

Morning commuters bundle up against the cold as they walk to work Monday, Feb. 5, 2007, in bitterly cold temperatures Monday, Feb. 5, 2007, in Chicago.

Steam rises from the breath of a morning commuters as she walks to work in bitterly cold temperatures Monday, Feb. 5, 2007, in Chicago.

People brave cold weather during morning commute, Monday, Feb. 5, 2007, in New York. The National Weather Service declared hazardous weather conditions for the metropolitan New York area, which was hit by arctic air that pushed temperatures 20 degrees below normal.

People brave cold weather during their morning commute, Monday, Feb. 5, 2007, in New York.

University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire student Reid Filiatreaux takes a brisk walk to a morning linguistics class, Monday, Feb. 5, 2007, in Eau Claire, Wis. Double-digit subzero temperatures kept Wisconsin in the deep freeze Monday, closing hundreds of schools and day care centers because of the dangerously cold weather.

Commuters are bundled for protection from the subzero cold as they head to work Monday, Feb. 5, 2007, in Chicago. Temperatures were not expected to get above single-digits for the day while wind chill temperatures in the city have not been above zero since Friday.

A commuter is bundled for protection from the bitter cold as she heads to work Monday, Feb. 5, 2007, in Chicago. Temperatures were not expected to rise above single-digits for the day while wind chill temperatures in the city have not been above zero since Friday.

Commuters are bundled for protection from the subzero cold as they head to work Monday, Feb. 5, 2007, in Chicago. Temperatures were not expected to get above single-digits for the day while wind chill temperatures in the city have not been above zero since Friday.

Kate Hupp, a courier, makes a delivery on her bicycle, Monday, Feb. 5, 2007, in downtown Cleveland. Whipping winds made temperatures feel as cold as 25 below.

People brave the cold weather while walking on Pennsylvania Ave. Monday, Feb. 5, 2007, in Washington. The National Weather Service issued a wind chill advisory for the greater Washington area.

Steam rises around a public works crew tending to a water main break early Monday, Feb. 5, 2007, in front of the Polk County Court House in Crookston, Minn., in the sub zero temperatures.

Sean Bolger, 4, of Woodbury, plays in the condensation and ice on the entrance to Lifetime Fitness in Woodbury, Minn., Monday, Feb. 5, 2007. Sean was visiting the gym with his mother, Mary. Temperatures dropped below zero in Minnesota on Saturday morning and were expected to remain there until sometime Tuesday.