#3 My MIL is up the road from you, QCP, and has already been out to purchase the necessities for getting through the next several days:

Bottled water - check
Batteries - check
Snacks - check
Wine - double check

:-)

#3 My bride has been keeping an eye out on the weather in NC.

In the mountains the high is supposed to be 20-23 degrees F.

While the low is in the low single digits, with windchills pushing the feels-like to the negative, double-digit territory.

Brrrrrrrrr

#7 Was in Colonial Williamsburg many years ago for their Grand Illumination (early December). Walking out of the hotel, thoroughly bundled up, I saw a man getting out of his car wearing nothing but shorts and a T shirt.

When I looked at his license plate it read "Minnesota."

:-)