Wow. I've stopped looking at the weather forecasts on my iGoogle page because the lows are dipping in the minus range. I just don't want to know! Everyone says that it's an unusually cold winter. And unusually long.
Last Friday was an interesting Orthodox holiday, "Kreschenitsa." Everyone was saying that if you collected the water that ran from the faucet at midnight, it would be holy, healing water. Evidently this water keeps all year, and if you're sick you can put a few drops in regular water and will recover. They wash babies' faces with it, etc. It was very interesting to see how much everyone believed in it---even the ethnic Kazakhs talked about it, and they're Muslim!
It also is known as the coldest day of the year. Then everyone expects the weather to start warming up. Unfortunately, no thawing out yet!
I have heard that the extreme cold has caused some infant deaths in Tajikistan. They don't have power 100% of the time, and even when they do some hospitals don't have sufficient heat. Two infants died of hypothermia. So sad. Don't take your infrastructure for granted.
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