http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090117/ap_on_re_us/winter_weather]Big Chill: Blast of Arctic air stuns eastern US (AP)[/URL]



AP - Alabama briefly turned colder than Alaska, water fountains froze into ice sculptures in South Carolina and Florida shivered through its brush with the Arctic air blast that deadened car batteries in the Northeast and prompted scattered Midwest power outages.