Frozen scenes across the Northeast

Most of our extended family is in the deep freeze, as polar air drops deep into the U.S. At this writing, we're expecting temperatures to fall several degrees below zero early Sunday at Birch Street Headquarters in New Jersey.

The photo above was sent on New Year's Eve by Dolores and Hugh from their condo at Deep Creek Lake in western Maryland. Snow fell steadily there from Friday night until that Sunday morning, and the temperature went down to at least -2.

That was before the big East Coast snowstorm of the first week of January. The heaviest snowfall was in New England, and Christine took this photo from the window of her apartment in Norwood, Mass., the next day. At least a foot of snow fell there, but the apartment complex staff did a good job of plowing and shoveling!