After snow dumping in MT while our youngest daughter visiting there (my mom), and her car being stuck in the snow about a mile from the house due to not being able to get thru the snow, it melted off and it was 55* there yesterday when she left.
In contrast, here in "sunny, warm" NC, we are battling winds dropping our temps into the teens for the past 3 days (around 18* w/ windchill most of yesterday - the warmer the regular temp got the faster the wind, so windchill stayed the same - MISERABLE)... Currently it's 25* and there is ICE on any water outside of a warmed area. When it warms up a bit more, will be checking for damage.
May have lost the plants the I planted 2 Goji Berry, 2 Butterfly bushes) as well as the ones we didn't (2 Blackberry, 2 honey berry). Probably should have brought the ones not planted in to the house, but then would have had to figure out how to keep daughter's upset cat (since daughter gone) from tearing them up... Plus I simply didn't realize we were getting this HUGE cold blast!
We DO need some precip here! No rain, no real snow as predicted - we are already behind in water, heading into drought and the prediction is a hot, dry summer here. Now that we are really working on planting, I'm very worried about water situations. Think we'd have been better off putting our money into water containment system(s) from our roofs then in the floors...
But it is SOOOO much easier to care for these vinyl floors than the carpet, so I'm happy (still a lot of work - TRULY didn't realize how BAD our dogs were being!!).
I can't get over this cold weather - when we'd already had temps in the upper 80's/lower 90's... I had to pull out the coveralls for the first time this winter (IN MARCH) - I just was too cold!