Freezing Cold!!

I guess we're in the thick of it now! Right now it's .5 degrees out there. Luckily there isn't much wind, but we're still under a wind chill advisory that's been under effect since 10pm last night. With the wind chill they were talking -35! Our weather center logged a windchill of -14.5 at 9am! Of course it only collects data every hour, so we could have had lower windchills... We went out to Wal-Mart yesterday after Mike got home from work to get our outside dog some cedar bedding. Last year we were more prepared, it was more of a gradual thing. This year it just snuck up really quick and caught us a little underprepared. We bought a shovel today over lunch. There's a winter storm warning for this weekend - Sat through Sun morning. We could get up to 8" of snow! With high winds, drifting and blizzard conditions! Yuck!!! Yuck Yuck!