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Texas pool pump blasts off like an 'Elon Musk' rocket
A suddenly unfrozen swimming pool pump blasted off in Texas, leaving the owner feet away from catastrophe — but with his sense of humor fully intact.
The 12-degree cold snap froze the pump, so being "smart, I picked up an industrial heater and set it near the pump," the Plano man explained on social media.
"Well it thawed, I kicked it on," he explained Sunday. "It spooled up and then the top of my filter pod broke loose and looked like @elonmusk launched a rocket from my house."
Possible hypothermia death in Oregon
The death of a person who was found in their home near Portland, Oregon, is being investigated as a possible hypothermia death, the Washington County Medical Examiner's Office said.
The office declined to identify the age or gender of the person found dead yesterday in Tigard.
The temps in Tigard dipped to 16 and 18 degrees on Saturday and Sunday, respectively.
Philadelphia freedom! Flying into the airport is safe again
The FAA will lift its weather-related ban on incoming flights to Philadelphia International Airport at 3 p.m. ET, an airport spokesperson said.
The ground stop, barring planes from landing at the airport, had been issued at 11:30 a.m. and was scheduled to be lifted at 1 p.m. before it was extended for another two hours.
Video shows FedEx truck going in circles in Kentucky
Few jobs are as difficult and appreciated today as those brave delivery service and postal employees, keeping goods on the move — even if it means going in a few circles through the snow.
This FedEx driver in Bowling Green, Kentucky, appeared to struggle with the slick, snow-covered roads, according to video shot by passerby Nick Crance.
The forecast high temperature for Bowling Green today is a frigid 19 degrees.
Another day of flying misery across the U.S.
More than 2,100 flights within, to or out of the U.S. have been canceled so far today.
There had been 2,113 flights taken off the board across snow-covered America by 2:25 p.m. ET, according to the tracking service FlightAware.
That number is actually a slight improvement from yesterday's misery. Today's cancellations will likely fall short of yesterday's debacle of 3,342 grounded flights.
Many of today's cancellations are not actually weather related, but the result of planes that didn't make it to their destinations yesterday, from where they were to be turned around for today's journeys.
ERCOT asks Texans to keep conserving power
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which serves most of the Lone Star State’s almost 30 million residents, asked consumers to continue conserving for another day with cold temperatures still lingering.
Even as temperatures climb a bit tomorrow, there's expected to be increased power demands as more people finally make it back to work or school following the long MLK Day weekend.
The forecast high temperatures today for Houston and Dallas are 36 and 28 degrees, respectively. The mercury should climb to comparatively balmy temps of 47 and 40 degrees in those cities tomorrow.
Texas wants to avoid the disaster of February three years ago when the overwhelmed system left millions in the cold, without power. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, was famously forced to return to freezing Texas after taking off for the warm environs of Cancún, Mexico.
FAA issues ground stop on arrivals at Philadelphia International Airport
The Federal Aviation Administration issued a weather-related ground stop on all flights coming into Philadelphia International Airport until 1 p.m. ET.
Flights are still taking off from the airport, where it was 29 degrees with light sleet at 11:45 a.m.
Traditional cold-weather cities finally see snow
While much of America spent this past weekend hunkered down and hiding from snow, traditional cold-weather cities from Washington, D.C., to New York skated free — until yesterday afternoon and this morning.
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport has received 4.1 inches since yesterday afternoon, while nearby Baltimore-Washington International Airport 4.9 had inches and Philadelphia International Airport recorded 3.3 inches.
And about 1.4 inches had fallen on New York City's Central Park as of this morning.
After a weekend of wild football weather, back to normal cold
After a weekend during which weather played a key role in NFL playoff games, life on the gridiron should return to familiar frigid settings.
One of those football cold spots will be in Baltimore late Saturday afternoon when the top-seeded Ravens play host to the Houston Texans. The forecast high of 27 degrees with a wind chill of 18 that day will surely be uncomfortable but not unbearable like it was in Kansas City, where the Chiefs scored a wild-card win in the fourth most frigid game in NFL history.
The Buffalo Bills and Chiefs are set to battle early Sunday evening in Orchard Park, New York, where the high temperature that day is forecast to be 26 with a wind chill of 15. That cold will not include the blinding snow that recently blanketed western New York and forced the wild-card Pittsburgh Steelers-Bills game to be delayed by 27½ hours.
Almost 40 people treated for hypothermia in Fort Worth, Texas
At least 38 people, including a 15-year-old, have been treated for hypothermia in Texas since Friday, MedStar Mobile Healthcare said in a statement today.
One patient was found in serious condition Sunday. The oldest to receive treatment was 72. Most patients were picked up from a street or highway or from a public building, while three called for help from a residence.
The company said that under its extreme weather response protocol, patients in an "unprotected environment" get a quicker response when the "real feel" temperature drops below minus 20. The priority is to "get the patient out of the elements and into a warm ambulance as soon as possible," the statement said.